Another image from the SFSU butterfly workshop in the Sierra Nevada, late June, 2008.
I chased the butterfly in a meadow and then crawled under a bush to get this shot.
Canon 20D, 300mm f4L IS, ISO 800, 1/250, f5.6 0EV, pattern metering, manual exp, HH
PP: LR 2.6
small crop
Exposure: set black and white points, recovered highlights, applied fill
tweaked the tone curve: brought the lights down, bumped up the darks
used ND grad to darken exposure in top left corner
adjustment brush: selective sharpening and lightening of butterfly wings; darkened left side of branch and ant abdomen; brought whites down on outside edge of butterfly wing
sharpening and NR
post-crop vignette







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