This is another image using a non-macro lens at its closest range. In the original image, the plant stem was nearly completely vertical. But just looking at at the image made me tired, wondering how long this little butterfly could hang on by its toes at such a steep angle, so I rotated the image to make it easier for it. lol
I wanted the focus on the head and wings, but if I had used F8 then I could have gotten the legs in sharper also.
Hi Cheryl,
I like what you were trying to do here. The background with the multiple out of focus flowers seems a bit busy; this takes away from your main subject. I think that this capture would have worked better as a vertical instead of horizontal. I made slight modifications to your image to give you an idea of where you should go with this. My illustration is not finished; its just a draft for you to complete as a homework assignment. I changed the background to a solid color using the traces of green in the original by cloning out the oof flowers; gave you selective sharpening on the butterfly, and kicked up the contrast and saturation just a notch. Also lightened the background. Like I said; I want you to re-work your image and repost it when finished...:cool:
here's a different take. i just used a color control point in Capture NX to change the color of the lighter areas to a comparable color. ran some NR on the bg and voila!! btw, the color control point is the same thing as the viveza plug in for PS.
i dont think it's wannabe macro. i think you did pretty dang good!! your subject is tack sharp. the bg is just a little busy. nice job!!
Great re posts I was thinking on doing what Harold did to start since the light color was the killer Might clone some of the purple behind the head for a clearer look.
Gus took it over the top with the drastic clean up Will take some doing to clean all around the bug ...... my preference ..... follow the bug till I get the desired bg!!!!!
Cheryl, I like your shot quite a lot. Very nice and sharp. The BG doesn't bother me but I used LR2 to tone it down a bit with the Vignette tool and some gradient adjustment. I think it makes the moth stand out more.
macro wanna-be image
