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Challenge: Bubbles (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Olympus C-8080
Location: Indoors in a South facing room
Date: Sep 19, 2005
Aperture: 8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Sky, Animals
Date Uploaded: Sep 19, 2005

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Bubbles and butterflies are not easy to work with. Third time is the charm I guess.

First time: 10 mph winds would sweep away the bubbles before I had time to press the shutter. Not to mention the Monarch butterfly flew away right as I snapped the shutter.

Second time: With another live Monarch Butterfly I moved the photo shoot inside to a south facing window. Cleaned the window. Set up the composition and snapped 75 photos. Butterfly was let go. 2 were good but I found out that my camera had decided to change the date to Nov. 16, 2005!

Third time: Was fortunate enough to capture another Monarch. I was also fortunate to have a 1 hour break in the rain storms that are coming off of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Rita. I made sure that the camera had today's current date before I started taking photos. This time I snapped 30 shots of which 3 were really good. This is the best of three:-)

Other info:
Flash was used.

Statistics
Place: 24 out of 240
Avg (all users): 6.0924
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 6.0485
Avg (non-participants): 6.1137
Views since voting: 1385
Views during voting: 405
Votes: 314
Comments: 15
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 10/01/2005 11:14:26 PM
I just knew you'd come up with something. Question, and you can answer anywhere you want to...how is it that you know much about attracting and capturing insects?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/27/2005 11:50:10 PM
Balance and focus just too good to offer any criticism. Congratulations.
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 09/27/2005 05:32:01 AM
does not tell me anything
 09/26/2005 10:17:53 PM
:o)
 09/25/2005 11:37:26 AM
Hmmm. I have no idea how you would control this, but I would have liked to have seen the bubble closer to the butterfly. The bubble is so transparent that you almost miss it. Also, I wish you comle have gotten rid of those dark leaves/branches which are out of focus. Some people want everything!! I really think it's a good concept and execution, but it needs some tweaking on the composition.
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 09/23/2005 11:44:54 PM
good picture
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 09/23/2005 02:02:50 PM
rather plasic looking tree and butterfly
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 09/22/2005 12:29:16 PM
NIce picture. However there are some specs on the right side, looks like your lens needs to be cleaned
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 09/22/2005 07:01:42 AM
Good bubble, good butterfly. Tthere is nothing to bring the two together--I think I would like it better if they were closer together.
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 09/22/2005 12:17:39 AM
9
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 09/22/2005 12:08:07 AM
The bubble should really be your main idea. Not the butterfly
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 09/21/2005 11:21:24 PM
Was it live or from a collection? Regardless, great shot! Good luck...
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 09/21/2005 07:53:26 PM
Doesn't really tie together- too random.
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 09/21/2005 04:28:21 PM
Well, this is just beautiful. Technically perfect. Okay... if I had to be picky I'd say the bubble could be shifted slightly to the right. But otherwise an excellent shot.
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 09/21/2005 10:31:03 AM
great shot! :D
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