Motif: Color

[Julie Kenward]

I spent Friday at my local botanical garden's "Butterfly Festival." Talk about a great opportunity to photograph color! Here's one of the images I worked on this weekend.

Canon 40D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
f5.6 @ 1/60th, ISO 100
Center-weighted metering, AWB
Handheld, natural light

Processed in Camera Raw/CS3. Levels, curves, saturation adjustments. Slight crop. Selectively sharpened the butterfly and slightly blurred the BG.

[Harold Davis]

nice one jules!!!! might suggest evicting the stem going through the right wing. other than that. quite lovely!!!

[Nonda Surratt]

Great color!!!! Love the BF! I agree on the one stem and would be tempted to maybe blur that whole side a bit more,my eye keeps getting drawn to the stuff in the upper RH corner.

BF's are quite scarce around here for some reason

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

Hi Jules,
Agree about the stem, otherwise beautiful on all counts. Pity about the damage to the bottom of the left wing.
Regards,
Nicki

[Julie Kenward]

Okay, I went in and dodged that top right corner. Do you like this better?

[carole wiley]

It is better, but the stem through the wing is still bothersome. Terrific color on the BF.

[Lance Peters]

Like the repost - damaged wing does not bother me - life aint perfect.
;)

[Alfred Forns]

Love the Bflies Jules !!!! Very lovely image I have to go along with the stem eviction !!! Excellent color composition !!!!

[Katie Rupp]

Beautiful colors, Jules, and the repost works really well.