If you've ever been to a butterfly festival at a botanical garden then you know how they love to pack a ton of flowers and colors into a very tiny space. This image was taken in what they call "The Breezeway" which is a long outdoor tent made of netting. The colors were so overpowering to me that I decided to tone down all the ones in the BG and let the butterfly stay as fully saturated as he was.
I added a glamour glow preset in Color Efex and then a vignette blur using their whitest / lightest setting. I tweaked the contrast and sharpened only the butterfly, leaving the rest of the image soft and blurred.









