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Challenge: Free Study 2011-08 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Date: Aug 20, 2011
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/501
Galleries: Animals, Insects, etc
Date Uploaded: Aug 27, 2011

 This was also my alternate for "In the style of sherpet" challenge.

Butterfly perched on a woman's finger in the Butterfly Pavilion exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History.

-Handheld, Manual mode
-FL 436mm (35mm EQ)
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Hue/Saturation Layer to boost RGB, Greens, and Reds
-Hue/Saturation Layers through mask to partly desaturate fingers
-Crop to square
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied three times)
-Enlage Canvas to make black border
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 298KB

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Canon EOS-7D Mark II
Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
09/08/2011 03:09:49 AM
The distractions make this a real life shot. Thanks.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 09/08/2011 02:03:58 AM
You were in Los Angeles?? You should have let me know!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D5000
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
 09/04/2011 04:48:51 PM
The composition of the image is just too cluttered.. The unfocused leaves in the front are distracting and don't add any value to the overall image. The lighting is pretty harsh on the left side of the wall but the butterfly isn't overblown with higlights which is good. It's cute that you were able to hold the butterly on your finger (or whoever's holding it lol).. I think this would've worked better had you cropped everything and just kept the butterfly close up.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD Canon Mount
09/04/2011 08:46:26 AM
too much in this image is distracting, the obstructed hand or the grating
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