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02/18/2008 05:07:30 PM |
Nice catch. I might suggest if this is not already a close crop, cropping in a little more to focus in on the butterfly. I'd suggest cropping out about 50% or maybe more of the image area, and placing the butterfly in the upper right quarter.
Colors and lighting are great. Depth of field is right where it needs to be. |
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02/17/2008 11:07:47 PM |
there's some nice colours there and butterflies are always interesting to me. i can never shoot quick enough before they fly away.
i agree with the previous comments... the butterfly is lost in the middle. i opened it in ps to see where i would crop it and i quite liked it when i cropped off the left side and some of the bottom.
i see a little bit of blown out part in the wings, but i don't know how that can be fixed or how to have taken care of it at the time of shooting. maybe it's just the time of day. |
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02/17/2008 01:57:03 PM |
Nice focus/details on the butterfly. Agree with previous comments that it is somewhat lost among everything else. Some suggestions for that were already made: crop off from right (and perhaps some from bottom), increase saturation of oranges/browns/reds. Might also try desaturating the green (try different amounts) so that the butterfly and purple flowers will stand out better by virtue of being the most colorful things in the photo.
(I assume you already ordered the 600 mm lens, so I won't make that suggestion.) |
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02/17/2008 12:48:05 PM |
Beautiful colors and focus. Try this for composition and see what you think: crop out everything to the right of the rightmost stalk and its leaves, and crop out enough of the bottom to leave it at a 3:2 aspect ratio (somewhere up the out-of-of-focus stalk coming up from the bottom and bending to the left.)
The current composition has the butterfly in the center. Centered compositions invite the viewer to compare the two halves. In this case, it's interesting, pretty purple flowers on the left to not much on the left. Vertically, it's again those flowers to not much of interest on the bottom.
The "rule" of thirds is intended to help people get their subjects out of the middle. Putting the subject exactly on the 1/3 lines isn't important, but getting out of the middle often is, and it seems that way to me for this shot. The other advantage is that it leaves the butterfly larger in the shot, allowing the viewer to appreciate the details. |
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02/17/2008 12:46:14 PM |
I saw a butterfly like that yesterday, only it was in an enclosed exhibit in a museum. I'll take natural light over museum light any day of the week!
I like the color palette you have here (OK, I'm partial to purple so I'm a little biased). I like the light tips on all the flowers, too, and how the light illuminates the butterfly on an angle. DOF is nice and the butterfly looks sharp.
There are a couple of things I would do differently to better emphasize the butterfly. He's a bit too camoflauged to me. One is crop tighter, particularly on the right. The bright bit of grass/weed just to the right of the butterfly really draws my attention. That would also put the butterfly off-center, which I tend to prefer compositionally. Looking at the scene, I think I would put him on the lower right ROT intersection with the crop, but everybody has their own preference where that's concerned ;-)
On the butterfly itself I would probably burn the body more and increase the saturation on the orange and brown to make it stand out a bit better. I can see eyes, which is very good, so I think you have good detail to work with. If you've got any bit of catchlight in the eye I'd be sure to dodge that a bit. People are always impressed if there's a catchlight in a little bug's eye.
All in all a nice capture IMO. |
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