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    Default Spring Swallowtail

    At North Lake, in the eastern Sierra, I captured this Swallowtail on a wild iris.

    Canon 1Ds, 70-200 2.8L


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    Robert O'Toole
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    Nice image Jeffery, the subject and the bloom make a great combination, they are 2 of my favorites.

    2 things I see that I think would definately help improve the image. Crop some of the dead space behind the B-Fly, removing the grass blade would be a bonus. Large empty spaces can be distracting.
    Then lower the contrast, the image looks great but the whites are a little too light, a little lacking in detail. The contrast make the image and subject stand out, but the highlights have suffered in this case.

    Robert

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    The first thing I noticed when I saw the image was the high contrast. Doing a reverse curve would help some. Agree with robert about getting some of the left side off. Keep them coming :)

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    Hi Jeffrey,
    Nice capture, also agree with the rest about the dead space behind your subject and cloning out the blade of grass...:D

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    Well Jeff, I can see what the others are saying and the crop and clone may help the image overall but I must say that I personally like the image pretty much as it is even though it is a tad overdone.

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    Thanks, everyone, for the tips. It was a pretty high contrast scene, being done mid-day. The dynamic range exceeded my camera's ability to capture it all. I made some attempts to 'save' it, but I still lost detail in the whites.

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