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Vanessa Atalanta
Vanessa Atalanta
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Macro IV (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Home - back garden (yard)
Date: Aug 1, 2004
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Aug 1, 2004

 Red Admiral butterfly feeding on budlea in my garden.
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM macro lens, handheld in sunlight.
Just another butterfly photo but a nice specimen!
Post processing, gamma 1.3 to lift mid tones,rotate a little to improve composition, crop, USM, resize, USM, NeatImage to reduce noise generated by both high ISO and increased gamma.

Statistics
Place: 53 out of 248
Avg (all users): 5.8771
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.7500
Avg (non-participants): 6.1111
Views since voting: 993
Views during voting: 249
Votes: 179
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 08/14/2004 11:28:33 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

A great image of a beautiful insect. Focus is great, colors are perfect, DOF is adequate. The composition works; the diagonal lines add life and the subject is placed well within the frame. The point of view is conventional, showing off the whole butterfly without emphasizing any particular part. And it works fine; this is a great photo. But not special.

The one thing I don't particularly like about the photo is the sharpness of the flowers in the foreground. A little selective blurring (not too much!), or maybe even masking them out of the USM applications could have made them a little less obtrusive.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/08/2004 10:37:49 PM
Good colors. Very sharp.
 08/08/2004 09:36:23 AM
Beautiful.
 08/07/2004 08:32:18 AM
A beautiful image, great composition. It just has that something extra. Excellent work.
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 08/05/2004 07:12:20 PM
for me this picture falls into the category of a solid picture. however, what keeps it from being a top 5 picture is the common aproach. top pictures seem to have an eye opening view or perspective that others don't.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/05/2004 12:42:44 AM
Voted earlier, returning for comments

Indeed a beauty. Very nice capture. Bumping image from 5 to 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/04/2004 11:36:33 PM
Very nice. Alive or dead? Almost seems too good of a picture for it not to be staged. If alive, amazing capture! One of the best and one of my favourites.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/04/2004 08:06:35 PM
i'm not really crazy about the composition on this one, but the colors are really pretty.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/02/2004 11:37:31 PM
What a beautiful butterfly. Nice capture, good lighting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/02/2004 10:24:45 PM
Good subject well captured. Flowers are so busy they detract from the subject. Trouble with these pesky bugs is they won't stand still for you or pose where you tell 'em. Love the precise focus on the moth(?).
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/02/2004 01:41:23 PM
Awesome
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 08/02/2004 12:50:39 AM
Excellent focus on the insect - nice placement in the frame.
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