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Giant Owl Butterfly

by Patrick O'Healy

Gallery: POP PhotosPosted April 19, 201569 views5 comments

March 15, 2015 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, California Butterfly Exhibit

D800  Nikor 24-120  ISO6400  1/400  f/5  RAW  White Balance Auto  Processed in Lightroom, NIK and PhotoshopCC2014 

This is one of the shots taken after I rebooted the stuck camera.  I did not realize that ISO Auto was one of the factory settings to which it reverted. 

Thank you in advance for your comments.  devil

Comments

5 comments
Comment posted by Gary Reed on April 19, 2015 at 2:56 PM

Looks pretty clean for 6400. Could use a little level adjusment to brighten up just a touch.

Registered on September 19, 2009, 198 Posts, 1074 Comments
Comment posted by Patrick O'Healy on April 19, 2015 at 5:13 PM

Gary,

Thank you for the feedback.  What do you think of this iteration?

Registered on March 13, 2011, 326 Posts, 1679 Comments
Comment posted by Mike Ramy on April 19, 2015 at 6:07 PM

Hey Patrick,

What a great shot of a very Cool Butterfly.

The re-post looks too bright on my monitor with the original look'n very sweet and if it is too dark, not by much at all, not enough to worry about.

laugh Man !

 

Registered on June 16, 2012, 567 Posts, 2809 Comments
Comment posted by Mark Seaver on April 19, 2015 at 7:25 PM

This is a great look at this bf, Patrick.  I agree with Mike that the original post looks just about right.  The starkness of the stripes has me wondering about oversharpening, but since I'm not familiar with the bf, that may be real.

Registered on January 23, 2011, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
Comment posted by John Launstein on April 22, 2015 at 5:48 AM

Beautiful, Patrick! This really shows your command of technique and execution, and has a wonderful artistic quality as well. The opposite colours (approximately opposites on the colour wheel) between your subject and background tones are a subtle roundhouse that sneaks up without being aware of it but impacts nonetheless. Really nice. 

Registered on April 5, 2011, 223 Posts, 1193 Comments