Greetings from the Critique Club
Hi Anne,
Got you again :)
Initial thoughts/My opinion
Nice, unusual butterfly and unusual angle of view. Great DOF. Not very special though.
Content/Composition
I do like how you composed the image: the shallow angle of view makes the butterfly look unusual and thus interesting. Also that you picked a green bug that almost blends into the green and nicely blurred background was a got choice. Speaking of background: the vertical stripes in it disturb, what are they?
I do like how the leaf under the butterfly is in focus and how it is aligned relative to the bug.
What I do not like is that the right wingtip is cut: that reduces the feeling that the bug is "flying" on the background of the image. Here I do see a major problem of the image.
Camera work -technically
Well done regarding focus and white balance. Could be a little bit brighter though. As mentioned, DOF is well chosen.
Digital Processing - Technical
Also in this image I do see too much graininess, although ISO 100 should be OK. Part might be due to the small file size: it's just 50 KB instead of the 150. One suggestion: after you submitted your image, review it on the DPC-site and by right-clicking on it save it back to your hard disk and check the file size: if it is too low, decrease the compression factor until you use up the whole allowed space.
Overall, quality-wise it is not too good, because it is not really crisp on the bug.
Fits the challenge
Yes it does, but a Woow-factor is missing. The balance between the two things that go together is too much on the butterflies side and the botanicals serve more ore les only as background.
Good luck for your upcoming submissions
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