This is a big moth I found in my yard. I put it on the brick stack and kept taking pictures at ISO 100. Of course, the critter was flapping its wings like mad, and there was still blur at ISO 800, so I turned it up all the way. This probably would've done good with my desaturated sepia technique for covering up noise, but I just like the colors on the moth alot. I know the noise is there. I tried to counteract the low votes by titling the image "Pure Fuzz". I'm sure this will be the lowest score I ever get.
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Have you all gone mad? This image is terrible..
But thanks for not electing me president of the brown for this challenge, anyways..
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I think the main reason you got nailed is that this image doesn't meet the challenge, it doesn't say pure to me. People also tend to like their macros to be razor sharp. Instead of driving up the ISO you could try opening the aperture all the way (if possible, I'm not familiar with your camera). ISO 1600 seems a bit overkill if you were shooting in good sunlight (again I don't know the conditions this was taken in), I'm thinking the camera decided to close the aperture rather than increase the shutter speed. You could maybe try to use 'sports mode', that might favour higher shutter speeds. The burnt highlights in the background are also not helping this image, next time try a higher angle to get the sky out of the frame. Overall a good macro capture.
I think many people in this challenge are entering an image with any theme whatsoever and adding the word 'pure' to the front. Pure should convey completeness, being undiluted, innocence, etc. This isn't a pure example of anything.
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