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joel quenneville
01-02-2008, 10:05 PM
This photo was created after several fruitless atempts to photograph this butterfly while combining a good pose and a pleasing background. All the previous images had distracting elements in the background. Finally, it landed on this flower and let me get quite close to take the shot. I used a large aperture to create the diffused BG.

EXIF
1/400 sec
f/5.6
ISO 400
Nikon D200
Nikkor 18-200VR @ 200mm

Arthur Morris
01-02-2008, 10:38 PM
Lovely colors and subject. Looks a bit noisy (as expected with that camera). I would crop the lower 1/3 of the flower and sharpen the whole J-PEG a bit more. lal, artie

D. Robert Franz
01-03-2008, 12:02 AM
The colors and subject are wonderful and agree with Artie on the sharpening....

Alfred Forns
01-03-2008, 10:41 AM
Glad your efforts paid off !!!!! For sharpening you might want to select the bfly only You don't want sharpening noise !!!