Fly Away

[Kathy Reeves]

Taken in my backyard a few days ago, of a Gulf Frittarry. 1/4000, f7.1, -2/3, ISO 1000, FL 400.

[Julie Kenward]

Well done, Kathy! You nailed that butterfly!!! I'd cut a small bit off the left side and the top to delete a little of the negative space and then I'd frame that baby!

[Desmond Chan]

I think the colors and the sharpness are very good. As far as the composition goes, I have reservation about it. I am guessing you also intentionally tilted the shot? It will also be better if the butterfly angled more towards the sensor plane. My 2 cents.

[Alfred Forns]

Agree with the Bfly looking more our way but the main thing I see is the overlapping with the bg flower. Sure would like seeing separation. The butterfly, flowers and bg look so good !!! Excellent

[Lance Peters]

Hi Kathy - love the colour and sharpness you have in this - well done.

Agree that in a perfect world angled more to the sensor would be good.

keep them coming.:)

[Harold Davis]

that is one sharp butterfly and i like it!!! agree with wanting to see some separation, but what you have is well captured too!!

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Kathy,
See if this crop works better for you. I did some cloning, and lightened up the dark spots on the wings...:cool:

[Amy DeStefanis]

Hi Gus,

IMO, you cloned out too much. I liked the color in the bottom right, but maybe just the leaf that was being cut off could be cloned out. On my monitor, I can see a tell-tale line where you cloned. I think I prefer the ORIG compo. It would have been nice for the BG flower not to be there, but something seems to be missing (because it is) in the repost....

Amy D.

[Desmond Chan]

I prefer Gus's repost. To me, the original composition doesn't look right,...not natural...looks too arbitrarily tilted (if there's such a thing)...Anyhow, guess it's just me.

[Kathy Reeves]

Thank you everyone for your comments and suggests--as usual they are fantastic!! Gustav knocked out my power til late last night.