Halloween

[Don Lacy]

With Halloween right around the corner I thought I would post a female Halloween Pennant I found at lake Okeechobee last year.

30D, 300 f/4 +1.4 TC, 1/200 at f/16, Manual, Spot Metered, ISO 400, Raw, Tripod, Remote release with MLU, ACR and CS3, Canvas was added to the right to improve the Comp

[Dave Mills]

This image is wonderful. One minor nit is I would give a hair more room to the top.
All in all...great job!!

[Chris Starbuck]

Don,
Nicely done - good comp, clean BG, very sharp on the dfly & perch with good DOF.

[denise ippolito]

Don, I think it's great. I love the colors in the BG and the color on the Pennant really is perfect. All very sharp!!

[Joanna Trescott]

Absolutely stunning! The comp, BG and sharpness are all excellent

[Julie Kenward]

The insect and plant are perfect, Don. What is going on at the bottom of the image, though? It's either noise or posterization but I can't tell which. Is it just my monitor or can someone else see what I'm talking about?

The main part of the image is perfection, though. You really nailed that insect!

[Don Lacy]

I think you are seeing a little noise in the darker part of the BG that I did not notice, I did some NR on the BG do you still see it.

[Robert O'Toole]

Love this image Don, great work, congrats. The perch is green and alive, the sharpness is right on, DOF is great and the angle and comp is beautiful.

I think Julie is referring to a dark square shape maybe, its like a shadow or a Bokeh oof shape.

Robert

[Julie Kenward]

Yes, where it is darker, if you look closely, you can see a lighter shade mixed in and that is usually a sign of noise or posterization. If you ran noise reduction then my next question is did you do a large curves or levels adjustment? Sometimes that will lead to the beginnings of posterization if I remember correctly.

[Robert O'Toole]

NR and/or Gaussian blur would take care of it.

NR should always be before curves or any tone change in workflow.

Honestly the image is so good Don could just crop the darker area out totally, the cropped image would shine just the same.

Robert

[Don Lacy]

I just looked at the sequence this image came from and all of the raw images have the same dark green OOF bokeh. Thanks for your comments and I will think about what to do with the lower half of the image.

[Mike Moats]

Hey Don, not much to say other than, outstanding image!

[Nagesh Mula]

Hey Don, an Amazing pic and I really liked the simplicity here. Very Quiet BKGR and sharp subject.