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The beauty of uncertainty
The beauty of uncertainty
snaffles


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Challenge: Zen Photography II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: near Chateau Snaffles
Date: Jun 21, 2009
Aperture: f10
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Nature, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Jun 21, 2009

 A butterfly that happened to land within camera range. When I was editing the shot I kept hearing that KT Tunstall song in my head, so I figure someone was trying to tell me to use it for a title. :-0


pp: RAW to TIFF, crop, curves/contrast 2x, clone out some straw, resize, usm, sharpen edges 1x

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 07/02/2009 12:54:09 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club

Susan, I've been sitting on this one a few days as I'm not sure what to say to be honest.

As far as photos of butterflies go, I think this is a very nice one. It could be used in a natural history catalogue. However, as far as this challenge goes, then I think it's probably not the best composition. The composition is very static and holds little interest to the viewer. As I say, it's a decent enough photo of a butterfly.

As far as exposure is concerned, it's a toughie with a high contrast subject such as this. However, I took the liberty of downloading it and managed to pull back some of the detail by tweaking the midtone levels slider. I notice in your processing steps, for this and other images, that you do not tend to use levels. I urge you to take a look at the levels adjustment layers as this one feature in PS is probably the single most useful tool when trying to make your images pop.

PM if you want some more info on using levels.

Sarah

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/28/2009 02:51:41 PM
I don't understand the title at all....gorgeous butterfly....6
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 06/23/2009 03:37:58 PM
Lovely butterfly, just a little hard to the the detail in the black portions. Background seems a little crowded too. Really tough shot, but you did well.
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 06/23/2009 12:01:25 PM
Probably the best butterfly shot in the challenge. Lighting is a bit flat IMO.
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 06/22/2009 08:58:14 AM
gorgeous
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