Darn Pretty Cockatiel
by rrdjserv

Comment:
Wow... he looks EXACTLY like my old cockatiel. Great pic :)

Winged Beauty
by amcfoto

Comment:
thanks for the critique! This photo is full frame with what I shot... I realize now I should have kept the wing and abdomen in. I didn't notice it because I was so focused on getting a good shot of the head of the butterfly.

As for the lighting... this was in a butterfly garden, no choice in lighting and I did not use a flash or anything of that anture. All natural lighting in basically a greenhouse.

As for the commenter who said it was oversharpened.... I only sharpened the eye and "tongue" of the butterfly to give it a bit more pop. Everything else is unaltered.

I did a bit of saturation to make the colors pop a bit more but other than that, i did very little to this photograph, thought it was great as is for the most part.

It's hard to shoot butterflies and this trip I got very few useable shots. There were a LOT of people milling around and disturbing the butterflies which I found ANNOYING. I'll have to take another trip to Magic Wings soon and try again.

Clouds made of happy people
by Shadowrain

Comment:
I don't see how this fits the challenge

Women in power.
by redfire

Comment:
this looks like you took a photograph of a woman and photoshopped it to look powdery. No so much a fan of that. sorry

grain of the universe
by the great ubaldo

Comment:
would have been great if it was in focus...

Sandular
by KarANN

Comment:
this photo looks like it was taken out of focus and you maybe tried to fix that in PS? sorry but going to have to score low here....

Rice
by vignir_m

Comment:
this is so out of focus it literally hurts my eyes. gotta score low on this one. sorry.

AJ
by toti

Comment:
terrific idea and technically a terrific shot. good job!

Mine
by Evaan

Comment:
what a terrific shot! love the squirrel!

Gala
by dahkota

Comment:
beautiful macro shot. a little grainy but otherwise terrific!