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The Dance
The Dance
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Challenge: Insects II (Minimal Editing I*)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS
Location: Butterfly World, South Florida
Date: Apr 10, 2007
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/200th sec
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: Apr 10, 2007

 They have some amazing butterflies and birds at Butterfly World. Lucky to be in South Florida for this challenge. In camera, used portrait look with a bump up in contrast and saturation. Of course, no post processing except sharpen and resize. If I could have, would have cropped a bit off the left. Scientific name...Heliconius Melpomene Cythera.

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Place: 45 out of 180
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 04/26/2007 11:23:47 PM
CRITIQUE CLUB CRITIQUE
by karmat

Very nice colors and focus. I like how the flowers seem to be "leaning" towards the butterfly. It helps to give the shot some motion and dynamics. The shallow dof really helps the butterfly to stand out, and the detail present is very nice as well.

I agree that cropping on the left would help this image tremendously. Obviously, that wasn't allowed for *this* challenge, but anyother time I think it would really help.

You did well in the challenge. Good work and great capture.

karma
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/22/2007 01:00:07 PM
Nice touch of the matching colours in the wings and flowers.
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 04/22/2007 03:14:19 AM
Lovely!! Colors are nice and I just ADORE how the flowers mimic the color found in the butterfly's wings. 10.
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 04/21/2007 10:19:50 PM
delicate and colorful.
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 04/21/2007 10:01:32 AM
cool
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 04/20/2007 07:53:57 AM
Great color and very close, Great job
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 04/18/2007 06:40:23 AM
I like this a lot. The colours are great and the butterfly shown to good effect.
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 04/17/2007 03:38:28 PM
Very Pretty
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 04/17/2007 09:42:36 AM
This is beautiful.....love that the flowers are the same colour as the bands in the wings. Nice composiiton
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 04/16/2007 08:34:11 PM
Good crisp photo! Great color match-up.
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 04/16/2007 12:24:16 AM
Amazing how the spots on the butterfly's wings mimic the petals of the flowers.
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