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Challenge: Something New II (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: Desert Botanical Gardens - Phoenix, Arizona USA
Date: May 8, 2004
Aperture: f/2.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/800th
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: May 9, 2004

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Adjustments:
1-Color saturation
2-Brightness/contrast
3-Minor cloning out of tiny distracting items
4-50% greyscale layer used to tone down bottom flower
5-NeatImage to reduce background noise
5-Cropped
6-Resized
7-Minor USM (200%, .2, 0)

Statistics
Place: 12 out of 187
Avg (all users): 6.6497
Avg (commenters): 8.1111
Avg (participants): 6.3774
Avg (non-participants): 7.0563
Views since voting: 2580
Votes: 177
Comments: 33
Favorites: 10 (view)

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 06/23/2007 07:36:23 PM
am i the only one who wonders why this butterfly has only 4 legs??
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 05/22/2006 06:17:14 PM
Ah, so I see you went back to get this picture. It looks absolutely beautiful!
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 05/17/2004 01:50:51 AM
Congratulations! The colours are just beautiful in this picture.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/16/2004 11:00:13 PM
Great shot!
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 05/16/2004 04:48:58 PM
Great macro, the colors are really beautiful. It would also look good if the rest of the wings were in focus.

Good luck...
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 05/16/2004 02:35:24 PM
BEAUTIFUL!!
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 05/15/2004 09:32:11 PM
a touch more depth would have made it perfect ... great job ... 9
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 05/15/2004 04:27:09 PM
wonderful colors, great capture. the white on the flower is a little hot, but the subject makes up for it.
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 05/15/2004 03:14:28 PM
Great focusing and DOF here.
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 05/15/2004 01:49:04 PM
Awesome picture! Great work. Good luck. I think it should get a ribbon, IMO.
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 05/15/2004 07:21:58 AM
I don't know what you shoot normally, but maybe you should stick to macro shots ;-) wonderful.
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 05/14/2004 07:06:16 PM
Great macro! It's always hard to decide how to crop these. I have taken hundreds of butterfly shots. I always try different crops when I go with them too. I think for this one, I'd either cut out the antenna and part of the flower and top and about an inch of the left side. Or, I'd open up the crop on the left and top to include the entire wing. Nice color, a little bright, but nice :)
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 05/14/2004 04:51:53 PM
This is a wonderful macro. Good Luck. One of my top picks!
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 05/13/2004 10:55:35 PM
nice detalis
but the pic is not great
if you know what I mean
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 05/13/2004 12:11:53 PM
This is a really nice macro shot. Great focus and the colors are very warm and pleasing.
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 05/12/2004 11:41:57 AM
Wow, that's pretty close! Butterflies tend to fly off when I get too close so you did a great job getting in there. I like the composition too. The colors are great, and the body of the butterfly is very sharp. I'm a fan of shallow dof but I cant decide whether I like the majority of the wings being OOF or not. In some ways they make the body details stand more a lot, but on the other they lose the texture and detail of the wings. Even so, a very cool shot!
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 05/11/2004 11:51:12 PM
Beautiful colors ,great light over Beautiful photograph
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 05/11/2004 01:39:58 PM
What a superb example of insect macro photography. The colors pop off my screen and your use of depth of field really draws the viewer's eye to the body of the bug. Nicely done.
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 05/11/2004 11:03:26 AM
Gorgeous detail and color!
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 05/10/2004 10:52:12 PM
Wow, that is a great macro...very detailed. Good job. Those things seem to fly away on me everytime I try.
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 05/10/2004 10:45:20 PM
Ohhh, Excellent! No nits to pick with this photograph. Hope you do well with it.
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 05/10/2004 09:53:31 PM
An amazing macro shot. Great detail, even the tongue!
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 05/10/2004 08:10:49 PM
very nice close-up shot of this butterfly....10 points
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 05/10/2004 07:35:59 PM
perfect macro shot, very nice colours. 10
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 05/10/2004 06:14:16 PM
Very pleasant shot, with lovely color and focus.
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 05/10/2004 04:52:09 PM
Very nice macro. Good use of DOF to make the background interesting without being distracting.
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 05/10/2004 02:22:52 PM
Great colours!
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 05/10/2004 10:17:25 AM
I wish my camera could do these shot... your skill shows here with excellent lighting and dof (minor nit - the top of the antennae thing is a bit distracting as it points to a yellow spot -- both the tip and the yellow thing could have been cloned out with no loss on overall composition)
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 05/10/2004 04:50:22 AM
Wow!!!
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 05/10/2004 03:48:14 AM
The body is sensational!!! Give it a 9, would have been a 10 if all of the wings were in shot. Sensational shot regardless.
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 05/10/2004 02:23:33 AM
It is a shame the DOF was not large enough to get the wings in focus, or at least in the frame.
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 05/10/2004 12:43:28 AM
Terrific photo. Is it really something you've never photographed before? If so it's all that more impressive.
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 05/10/2004 12:30:37 AM
Beautiful image! Wow look at the tiny little hairs on the butterfly's head! Very cool! Nice blurred background. I can almost feel the powdery wings. Easily an 8! But I'll be back after the looking at the rest of the challenge...
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