Camera Model Canon EOS 50D
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/100
Av( Aperture Value ) 8.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation -1/3
ISO Speed 400
Lens EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM
Image Quality RAW
Flash Off
White Balance Mode Auto
AF Mode AI Focus AF
Hey Jonathan,
Well I don't think you could have asked for a better pose! You are tack sharp and at that DOF....dead parallel to the plane! Great BG but will ask about the leaves.....waxy?....it appears they are so a slight tone down will focus more attention to the beauty of a BF! Not sure what is going on in the LRC....but it appears a bit funky.....so perhaps a touch of housekeeping on that too. overall.....very nicely done!
Excellent butterfly image, Jonathan! A more evenly colored BG would almost certainly make this even stronger but it would be difficult to get a good result in pp but you should be able to clean it up a bit more. That butterfly is outstanding...very sharp corner to corner and the diagonal fills the frame out beautifully.