Butterfly

nightowl66nightowl66 Registered Users Posts: 98 Big grins
edited November 23, 2005 in Wildlife
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PLEASE TAKE YOUR BEST SHOTS -- I WANT THE CRITIQUE

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  • prity goldfishprity goldfish Registered Users Posts: 233 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    very nice! i like the positioning of the butterfly and the flower, really the only thing i would change is the background, you do have it blurred which is good but maybe if it were blurred a little more then it would bring more focus on the beautiful subject, otherwise you're golden!thumb.gif
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    Excellent shot and the composition is on the mark. I might try a closer crop but other than that it looks just right, thumb.gif
    Harry
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  • GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    Wowzers!!!!
    Pretty hard to "take shots" at that! thumb.gifthumb.gif

    Only thing I can say is it would'a been nice to have a black backdrop behind all that.
    Which may or may not have been possible.ne_nau.gif
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  • ehughesehughes Registered Users Posts: 1,675 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    Great shot, I agree with Harry about a little tighter crop.. thumb.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    You want my best shot, and I am about to leave town, so am not a target, gotcha!

    OK, technically, the shot rocks. But two things bother me, one the background, that has been mentioned. I have one shot that I like better on the background, and I am not a butterfly photographer, don't even know which lens I was using, but if you couldn't go a black background, or whatever, I would have preferred the background be as out of focus as possible.

    Also, I don't quite agree with our much smarter than I am moderator. The composition bothers me a bit. More than a bit.

    I would have preferred to have the butterfly "into" the shot a smidgen, perhaps as little as 1/8 to 1/4 inch, whatever. I like the butterfly as the subject and right now to me the butterfly and the flower are fighting each other for the position of "subject".

    I think you could improve it with a small crop. And in the future I would work on what settings with your lens throw the background out of focus but keep the butterfly in focus. You probably could go nuts getting that exactly spot on. But I think you could go closer. The only focus I would be concerned with would be the whole butterfly and in particular the detail areas of said b fly.

    On a crop, I would crop it a bit just to make it appear that the butterfly is dominant to the flower. That would give the impression of bringing the butterfly into the photo a bit.

    Nice photo, really it is, but what I have said is only a goal not anything bad about this photo which is better than most of my few butterfly shots. Actually I spent several hours in the butterfly house last time and threw all the shots out, so you can see how much I can do. I probably was using my 400 mm lens, got off a lucky shot with focus, once, and that lens would throw the background out of focus at that range. But I couldn't repeat it! Not even an acceptable shot. My goal is to get a macro lens.

    ginger
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