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Challenge: Lucky 7 III (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Flowers and Bugs
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm F/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Aug 27, 2010
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/800
Galleries: Floral, Insects, etc
Date Uploaded: Aug 26, 2010
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7 butterflies in one shot is fun :-) I planted more flowers and bushes for them this year and it's paying off bigtime; when I walk into the yard on a nice day I am greeted by dozens and dozens of butterflies. Kind of magical.
For the record: 6 Tiger Swallowtails (5 light morph, 1 dark morph), 1 Monarch.
PP - slight rotation, cropped, 2nd layer (lightened, Gaussian blur, merged in multiply mode), increased saturation on everything but green, cloned out a few leaves on the far left, dodged shadowed butterflies, colored dark Tiger bluer on black part of wings, blurred some background more, resized, sharpened, added border. |
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09/06/2010 11:54:22 AM |
| Heh top 25!!! Nice going, Mary. |
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09/06/2010 11:52:47 AM |
| This is a lovely shot and one of those I gave extra credit to for just being seven, not creating seven. Gorgeous depth of field and really pretty specimens! What a nice thing to come home to! |
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09/04/2010 09:02:16 PM |
| Beautiful image. This would make a wonderful wall print. |
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09/02/2010 11:09:25 PM |
| nice timing, and good use of DOF |
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09/02/2010 09:17:46 PM |
| it's amazing what you can do with some sugar water and some super glue - this makes a nice change from marbles and stuff 7 |
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09/02/2010 12:01:09 PM |
| Nice nature study with a bonus point for getting butterflies in flight. |
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09/02/2010 03:26:26 AM |
nice idea, might have been better if you could have faded out some of the green the butterflies get a little lost - I'd even be tempted to do a spot of selective desaturation but I bet you had to spend half your weeks life just waiting to get 7 of the blighters in shot.
Pretty amazing that all but one are in focus. |
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08/31/2010 06:15:40 PM |
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08/31/2010 10:29:48 AM |
| very well seen! I hope this will do well. Good luck |
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08/31/2010 02:24:06 AM |
| Beautiful - and I would have to say very lucky to capture 7 butterflies. |
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08/30/2010 06:39:14 PM |
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08/30/2010 03:46:01 PM |
| I guess this flower bush is THE place to be? Fun image. Love them flutterbyes. |
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08/30/2010 01:54:24 PM |
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08/30/2010 12:16:26 AM |
| Beautiful awesome capture! |
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