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Challenge: Best of 2005 (Advanced Editing IV*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
Location: Concord, California, USA
Date: Jun 7, 2005
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jan 15, 2006

 Butterfly on a butterfly bush outside Isaac's classroom, just before he graduated from Second Grade.

-RGB Curve
-Noise Reduction
-RGB Curve through eliptical vignetted mask to darken outside area
-Reduce to DPC size
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH=0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH=5
-3 pixel black stroke
-SaveAs in JPEG at quality 8/10 = 139KB

Statistics
Place: 310 out of 833
Avg (all users): 5.8756
Avg (commenters): 7.1818
Avg (participants): 5.8078
Avg (non-participants): 6.2000
Views since voting: 1068
Views during voting: 534
Votes: 434
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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 02/01/2006 03:24:29 PM
Originally posted by train:
This looks stunning why didnt you crop it in to gets rid of the distactions of the back ground Its quite hard to focus on the actual image of the flower and butterfly
Detail is great just that background is not

I have been trying to concentrate on my camera skills and not editing, so I've been submitting a lot of uncropped shots just to see how successful my composition has been. I was actually very happy to achieve the DOF/bokeh effect, as it's hard to do with this camera. I like the riotous colors, though they do provide camouflage, they also mimic/mirror the colors of the subject.

Another consideration is that this is only a 3MP original -- cropping would probably limit me to 5x7 prints, even with a border.

I can try fading the BG to make the butterfly pop out a bit more, and maybe I'll try a vertical crop as well -- thanks for the sugggestion.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/27/2006 08:21:14 PM
Really nice vibrant colours and a really good use of DoF. 8
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 01/26/2006 08:07:20 AM
Lovely macro.....
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 01/22/2006 11:10:20 PM
unusual
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 01/22/2006 07:45:47 PM
I think I'd like to see this rotated 90 degrees CCW but this is still a very nice shot, great colour and focus.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/20/2006 04:22:54 PM
Nice colors. 9
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 01/20/2006 01:44:41 AM
This looks stunning why didnt you crop it in to gets rid of the distactions of the back ground Its quite hard to focus on the actual image of the flower and butterfly
Detail is great just that background is not
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/19/2006 11:03:36 PM
Excellent colors,10
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 01/18/2006 10:56:33 PM
10 from me....good luck!
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 01/18/2006 06:21:26 PM
lovely lighting, but a pity about the highlight just behind the subject.
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 01/17/2006 10:47:47 AM
The baclground is A little distracting.
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 01/16/2006 07:28:31 PM
This is SO beautiful. I wish it had been cropped just a tiny bit tighter. The super story is in the blossom and the butterfly. Still, a lovely image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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