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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 94 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
Thank you for your comments everyone. It's a delicate balancing act between too much color or pop and not enough. I've gotten some comments previously indicating I've gone overboard. Here, just the opposite. So I dinked around with the image in Photoshop and also cropped out some of the foreground and the hazy sky in the background. So what do you think? |
Oct 14th |
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| 94 |
Oct 24 |
Reply |
The Pipevine Swallowtail I see in California is a different species. I once encountered world-famous entomologist Art Shapiro on the American River trail while he was out working one of his many transects. He commented to me in a matter-of-fact tone that bicycles were a major mortality factor for these butterflies in spring as they squiggled their way across the bike trail in their caterpillar stage of life. I always brake for butterflies. Here's more about Shapiro and our Pipevines: https://butterfly.ucdavis.edu/butterfly/battus/philenor. |
Oct 14th |
| 94 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
Very nice photo, Sarita. Tack sharp where it needed to be. Vivid colors. Nice crop. And nice technique in the digital darkroom. Background blur just right. We have these butterflies in California. They're all over the place out along the American River bike trail. Great job! |
Oct 8th |
| 94 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
Love this shot, Leslie, and your creative composition. I agree you don't always need to show the eyes of your subjects. Your artistic choice to strip the image down to two elements is admirable. Sometimes less is more. This shot draws the viewer in and engages our imaginations. Both the leaf and the butterfly wing are in tack sharp focus, standing out against the black background. Hope you made a print of it. |
Oct 6th |
| 94 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
Great landscape shot! What a beautiful place, Judy, and you captured it very well. Love the fall color, the longer exposure, and the vertical composition. Great job. Our collective hearts go out to the people of that region who have been so horrifically affected by the hurricane, as well as to the towns and let's not forget the environment. This is something I'm not ashamed to get on my soapbox about: climate change. We as photographers have opportunities to tell stories about what is at stake. Glad to hear you made a print of this image. It's outstanding. Keep shooting! |
Oct 6th |
| 94 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
I saw these moths in New Mexico a few years ago and had no idea what they were. Amazing little creatures. Your focus is spot on and tack sharp. Looks like your Lightroom adjustments were masterful. I agree with Sherry. I think it would be hard to tone down the white flower in the background without messing with the moth. Excellent job. Tells a great story! |
Oct 6th |
| 94 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
Good for you for experimenting with a new digital darkroom technique, Peter. Since you were already shooting with the aperture wide open, your depth of field probably didn't need a lot of help by adding background blur--if indeed that's what you did. Would like to see the original, as well, to compare. I agree with Donald that adding some clarity in your RAW converter would help to sharpen the image. BTW, how much cropping did you do? I love this shot, though. It's really a fabulous image. Catching the lioness taking a drink of water was a perfect moment. Great job! |
Oct 6th |
| 94 |
Oct 24 |
Comment |
So that's what you were doing on my birthday, Sherry! Great shot. I agree with Donald and prefer your cropped version. I'm learning a lot about birds from the photographers in this group. Thanks! |
Oct 6th |
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