I could not resist. I have not been able to do photography for almost a month because of emergency surgery.
I said on another website that my days of shooting a conceptual shot with live insects is over. Never say never because I decided to challenge myself once again to do an imaginative piece.
It took 2 hours of patient work to get the butterfly to sit on my child's toy dragon. A castle ornament from the fish tank was added to the background for ambience to the scene.
Oh and we let the butterfly go this afternoon.
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Can you explain how you got the 1 pixel grey border almost all the way around? I can't figure that out.
Huh, I had not noticed that Karen. Now that you mention it, it is rather odd. I would attribute it to the large original file being resized down in one stop to 640X480.
I went back to the two photos that I captured that are 7 seconds apart and virtually identical. The first one, I resized from the original file size of 3264 x 2448 down to 640x480 and did not get that 1 pixel border. The second shot that is virtually identical I resized and got that 1 pixel border. I did the test resize several times and got varying results that are driving me crazy. My photo was validated during the voting but I am now writing to the SC on this 1 pixel artifact border issue.
Edit: Doh! When trying to replicate a problem one should:
Don't overthink.
Make sure you get a good night's sleep.
Make sure you are following ALL the steps you did in EACH & EVERY test :the missing factor that was not applied to all tests was the one time sharpening.
RESULT: Resizing down from 3264 x 2448 to 640x480 then sharpen will result in that 1 pixel wide artifact border.
Interesting, I don't think I've ever seen a butterfly on a dragon statue before! I can't help but think that this would be better in colour. I would love to see the colours of the butterfly. Your title doesn't make sense gramatically, sorry.
This is a great idea. Wonderful composition and I like the shadow of the castle behind the butterfly. Need more focus on the butterfly. I like the black and white, but would also like to see this one in color.
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