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Tiger Swallowtail
Tiger Swallowtail
Tlemetry


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Challenge: Free Study XII (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Olympus E-300 EVOLT
Lens: Olympus 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 Zuiko Digital ED
Location: Cuivre River State Park, Missouri
Date: Aug 15, 2006
Aperture: f/4.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Aug 23, 2006

Tiger Swallowtail butterfly on purple Thistle flower with blue lake in the background. A bee shares the flower on the left.

+3 closeup filter used to get in closer.

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Place: 533 out of 684
Avg (all users): 5.0920
Avg (commenters): 5.8462
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Views since voting: 637
Views during voting: 312
Votes: 250
Comments: 15
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09/14/2006 06:30:15 PM
Critique Club Review:

Focus and depth of field: Focus is good, depth of field went a bit shallow, resulting in severe softness at the upper tip of the butterly's wing. You did a good job of isolating distracting background, but at the cost of the full sharpnes of the subject. A possible remedy is to either wait until the wings are in a flatter position to minimize the depth of field needed, or to take the picture from a different angle so that less depth of field is required.

A different angle would have hidden the bee, but I do not see the bee as a central player in this story. As it is the bee is partially hidden already.

Color saturation and hue are good. The yellows in the butterfly look a tiny but pale, but it could be that it is just the coloring of this insect. Brightness and contrast are done very well.

As this is an advanced editing challenge, I might have taken the opportunity to darken the light highlites in the background just a bit, to reduce distraction.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/07/2006 08:58:19 AM
The blur on the wing closest to us is sorta distracting. otherwise nice shot.
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09/07/2006 06:11:31 AM
Nice shot.
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09/06/2006 09:44:50 PM
nice capture...love the colors! 9
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09/05/2006 03:14:45 PM
Would of looked better if it had a larger wing span.
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09/05/2006 01:52:49 PM
The colors seem washed out.
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09/03/2006 10:18:30 AM
This is really nice!
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09/02/2006 09:46:17 PM
Well bravo - you resisted following all the rule of thirds and let the background supplement and guide the composition. Glad you resisted bumping the saturation level up too.
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09/02/2006 12:20:24 AM
Nice and crisp with good color.
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09/01/2006 03:46:47 PM
there seems to be an odd long blurry sopt thats distracting , nice colors and bokeh though.
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09/01/2006 01:11:09 PM
Nice picture, but it's really too small.
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09/01/2006 10:29:35 AM
I like the DOF in this but would have like a bit crisper color of the butterfly and flower. (6)
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09/01/2006 10:18:21 AM
lovely bokeh...I like the sharpness against the bg, lovely colour...well done
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09/01/2006 07:58:53 AM
Wonderful colors. Great bokeh.
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09/01/2006 12:39:27 AM
such a gorgeous creature! i love the pastels. nice dof too! 7
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