Butterfly

Hi Yun. Welcome to NPN and the Macro&Close up gallery. Great to have you as a member.

Beautiful first post. The pink flowers make a lovely bg and perch for the butterfly. The butterfly is nice and sharp. My only suggestion would be to consider cropping a little off the top and the left side to reduce the patch of sky. In fact, for purposes of this web presentation, you could even consider an alternate vertical comp, cropping the left side side to appx a 4x5 vertical aspect image. This way, the butterfly is larger in the image and not looking out of the frame. On the other hand, you may like the patch of blue sky, and this is a very pretty image just as posted. Thanks for sharing, and I am looking forward to more from you.

Hi Scott, thank you very much for the comment. I appreciate it. Here are two reposts.

Yun, I like all three comps. They all look good. Personally, I probably like number 2 the best. On the two reposts, the bright vertical stem in the URC became very noticeable. You could work on cloning out or at least darkening the stem.

I love the light and the environment for this butterfly! I actually slightly prefer your first image, although I agree with Scott about there being perhaps a little too much sky. If you made an irregular size crop...just off the top about halfway through the sky, you would still be able to keep most of the wonderful environment around it. Just my two cents!

Thanks for the feedback, Scott, Eirini. I have been visiting NPN web site for a few months and finally decide to join the group.

Hi Yun Welcome to Macro an excellent first post! great detail and color, i too like # 2 the best, anxious to see more of your work
Albert Darmo