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Photo posted by Albert Darmo in the Macro & Close-up gallery on 07/31/17 at 6:28 pm EST
Registered on 11/25/08, 1386 Posts, 11978 Comments
Post last edited by Albert Darmo on 07/31/17 at 7:36 pm EST
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Comment posted by Shirley Freeman on 07/31/17 at 8:21 pm EST
Registered on 05/27/17, 77 Posts, 844 Comments
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It is beautiful, Albert. Wonderful detail and color in the butterfly. Great composition. The background on my monitor seems a bit bright, almost like it is over saturated. Might just be me.
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Shirley Freeman
Saint Pauls, North Carolina
www.freemansphotos.com
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." Ansel Adams |
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Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on 07/31/17 at 9:54 pm EST
Registered on 01/17/04, 705 Posts, 3594 Comments
Hi Albert,
Yes this is a monarch photographed under challenging light. You can do an adjustment layer and use Shadows & Highlights to reduce the shadow of the butterfly. The BG is bright and heavy with saturation. For an improved composition--shoot vertical next time to get that flower in the frame as well.Good attempt at capturing this monarch...............................Jim
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Comment posted by Yun Gao on 08/01/17 at 12:18 am EST
Registered on 09/11/12, 267 Posts, 1621 Comments
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Albert, beautiful colors in the butterfly, clean background. Perhaps crop a bit on three sides ?
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Comment posted by Balan Vinod on 08/01/17 at 06:20 am EST
Registered on 03/20/06, 889 Posts, 2312 Comments
Classic bf image Albert with a fine bg. Its difficult to get an image of this beautify under the challenging lighting conditions. Very well done
Balan Vinod
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on 08/01/17 at 09:25 am EST
Registered on 01/23/11, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
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The Monarch's arrived here in Maryland last week, Albert and I've been chasing them regularly. The ones around here seem pretty flighty, although if I sit next to a flower, they'll come back after a few minutes. This is a fine look at this one sitting on your echinacea against that fine green background. The highlights on the bf's wing are a nice extra. Cropping this to a vertical (or shooting as a vertical) would be good also.
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Mark Seaver
Burtonsville, MD & Emigrant, MT
seaverphotos.com
Weekly Challenge Moderator
Macro/Close Up Moderator |
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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on 08/01/17 at 3:50 pm EST
Registered on 07/24/06, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments
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Definitely a Monarch. Jim's advice is sound.
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Phil Hodgkins
Savannah, Georgia
NPN # 1998
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“The task is...not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”
― Erwin Schrödinger
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