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    Default Zebra Longwing On Zinnia

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    One day this butterfly came out of nowhere and landed on one of my zinnias. I had to document it.
    Lucky for me it liked to stay stationary. Used a Gaussian blur on the BG. Hope its not too artsy.

    Canon EOS- 1D, EF 100- 400 mm f/4.5- 5.6 IS, Canon 550 EX flash set at very low MP with Omni Bounce diffuser and a tripod.

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    I think it's lovely, Charles. I think you could also go with a square crop in this case, taking some off the top and bottom. Beautiful angle on the butterfly and nice work in the reds of the zinnia.

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    Love the colour combination in this beautiful image. Would also consider a more square crop.:)

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    Hey Charlie, I like the blur you added, nice soft feel. I think juat a crop of the top that would put the B-fly in the top third would work better.

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    With the Bfly oriented horizontally would try a different crop Do like the rich colors and clean bg !!!

    .... would go with some off the flower top and bottom or just square !!!

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    Beautiful butterfly. I wish one like this would visit me! Agree about the crop. Would try from bottom or top. I like the bkgrd leaf at the top so maybe a crop from the bottom?? What aperture did you use?

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    Mike,

    Thanks for your comments. I used f/8.0. FocalBlade really is my favorite PS plugin. It worked very well on this image. Use it all the time....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Charles Wesley View Post
    Mike,

    Thanks for your comments. I used f/8.0. FocalBlade really is my favorite PS plugin. It worked very well on this image. Use it all the time....
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    What does that plug in do?

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    Charles, I want to get FocalBlade. Colors and details are just lovely! The square crop sounds good. You really have an eye for putting together nice color comps.

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    Mike & Denise,

    Thanks for the comments. FocalBlade is a program to sharpen an image for either an LCD screen or a print. I only do selective sharpening with the program. It will also do soft focus. I found out about it from Luminous Landscapes about 3 years ago.

    It's very easy to use IMO and that's what so impressive....
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    Last edited by Charles Wesley; 12-13-2009 at 06:09 AM.

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    I like everything about this except for the angle. The butterfly looks distorted to me. The right wing longer than the left. Intuitively, I know the reason but visually it looks distorted.

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    Lovely. My first thought was that you placed the butterfly on the flower. :) Nice angle and color contrasts. I would like to see the butterfly's wing tips stand out a bit more from the BG. Cropping top and bottom would eliminate distracting elements. Very nice light, and I love the details on the red flower.

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