With all the controversy about the challenge description and people being on butterfly/flower overload I will be quite happy with a 5! I was not upside down (I am not coordinated enough to risk my equipment in that position) but I crouched down under the bush to get the underside of the butterfly looking up at him from a slight angle. It's a different perspective from what I usually try to get with butterflies, anyway. Could have used a little more DOF but too late now.
PP - converted from RAW, rotated left to get an angle I liked better, cropped, increased saturation on red/yellow/orange range, levels, decreased saturation on green range and shifted slightly bluer, USM, added border, resized, sharpened with noise reduction
Statistics
Place: 18 out of 102 Avg (all users): 6.1947 Avg (commenters): 7.5000 Avg (participants): 5.9773 Avg (non-participants): 6.2473 Views since voting: 1556 Views during voting: 336 Votes: 226 Comments: 8 Favorites: 3 (view)
Awesome colors here - very, very appealing palette. Your focus & dof is excellent & the bokeh of that lens you're using is absolutely dreamy! I really enjoy the repeating triangular theme & how the composition is divided by it.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
