Butterfly, not sure i'd call it Macro. Thoughts?

RogerLund

I took this yesterday, I had a two year old in one arm, so this is about as close as I could get.




This is Pre Processing.

Thoughts?

Anyone have idea's on hand holding shots like these?


Thanks

PeterD-2009

RogerLund wrote:

I took this yesterday, I had a two year old in one arm, so this is about as close as I could get.




This is Pre Processing.

Thoughts?

Anyone have idea's on hand holding shots like these?


Thanks

Nice shot Roger, particularly given the circumstances .

The question you pose regarding Macro work and normal is one that has puzzled me no end. Macro to the purists is 1:1 images, everything else is close up.
To my mind, I think the use of Macro lenses to do wildlife photography is fine but wildlife, just like any other form of photography requires composition, detail, sharpness etc. I own a Sigma 150 Macro lens and use it to provide nice sharp close-up images with a good background (taking advantage of the narrow dof of a Macro lens). I normally try to include all of the subject in the image. This goes against the grain of the purist.
At the end of the day, what matters is you take the images you want in the style that is right for you.
Your image meets the sort of criteria that I use and therefore it is appealing to me. Perhaps I might have cropped your image on the right more to get rid of the less interesting background distraction. Concentrate on the four leaves and the butterfly and crop to include as much of these as posible and you will have a great image.

Hope this helps.

PeterD-2009

I just noted you wanted some advice on PP for this image. I hope you do not mind but I have copied your image and adjusted it in Lightroom.
The first step was to crop the image. I found that both the highlightds and darks were being clipped I reduced the exposure to reduce the amount of clipping in the white bar area of the butterfly. I increased the fill slightly to try and recover some of the detail in the dark areas of the wing. adjusted the mid tones by using the clarity slider. Used the curves to fine adjust the image and finally applied minimal sharpening.


Remember, I am using a cut down version of your file and you should be more succesful than I when adjusting the original.
Good luck

RogerLund

It doesn't seem to let me view your edit other than the thumbnail.

Thanks for your advice, i'll take some time and see what types of results I can get.

Can you relink that edit with a larger version?



Thanks

PeterD-2009

RogerLund wrote:

It doesn't seem to let me view your edit other than the thumbnail.

Thanks for your advice, i'll take some time and see what types of results I can get.

Can you relink that edit with a larger version?



Thanks

Hi Roger, I do not know what happened before but here it is.



Sorry about that.