Butterfly on a butterfly bush outside Isaac's classroom, just before he graduated from Second Grade.
-RGB Curve
-Noise Reduction
-RGB Curve through eliptical vignetted mask to darken outside area
-Reduce to DPC size
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH=0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH=5
-3 pixel black stroke
-SaveAs in JPEG at quality 8/10 = 139KB
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This looks stunning why didnt you crop it in to gets rid of the distactions of the back ground Its quite hard to focus on the actual image of the flower and butterfly
Detail is great just that background is not
I have been trying to concentrate on my camera skills and not editing, so I've been submitting a lot of uncropped shots just to see how successful my composition has been. I was actually very happy to achieve the DOF/bokeh effect, as it's hard to do with this camera. I like the riotous colors, though they do provide camouflage, they also mimic/mirror the colors of the subject.
Another consideration is that this is only a 3MP original -- cropping would probably limit me to 5x7 prints, even with a border.
I can try fading the BG to make the butterfly pop out a bit more, and maybe I'll try a vertical crop as well -- thanks for the sugggestion.
This looks stunning why didnt you crop it in to gets rid of the distactions of the back ground Its quite hard to focus on the actual image of the flower and butterfly
Detail is great just that background is not
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