Activity for User 502 - Murphy Hektner - mhektner@frontier.com

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63 Oct 19 Comment Hi Neal: Thank you for your comments. I did spend some time working on the distractions in the background as I thought the background in the original was too busy. Oct 9th
63 Oct 19 Comment Hi Priscilla: Nice vibrant yellow colors against a very dark background creates a lot of impact. Not certain about cutting off the flower petals along the edges, but I have done it myself. If you move back far enough to include the petals with in the frame, then you loose some impact from moving back as the flowers are smaller. Sometimes you just gotta pick your poison. Like your diagonal composition very much. Oct 9th
63 Oct 19 Comment Hi Pat: Certainly a nice flower face. from a composition standpoint this picture is a good example of placing the center of interest in the center of the frame, it works well here. There is a dark hole in your background at the lower right corner, would clone this in; also the yellow patch in the lower left is distracting, would remove the yellow. Then the upper left corner is busy, would try to smooth this out. I know this sounds nit-picky, however it is these little distractions that will compromise an image. Oct 9th
63 Oct 19 Comment Hi Neal: Think I have mentioned before you have this focus stacking down to a science, as your technical aspects are pretty well spot on. The light gold border against the blue-purple background is a fine color compliment for the bee.
If I had a nit it would be the darker blue halo around the wing at the top of the frame, this would be easy to fix.
Good Work.		 Oct 9th
63 Oct 19 Comment Hi Rosangela: A very high impact flower image that commands your attention when it comes up on the monitor. The cloning out of the red leaf at the lower left corner was a great idea, also it appears you have darkened the background and diffused some of the greenery back there. Good camera technique and good post processing work!! Lisa makes a good point of toning down the left leaf, easy to do with your cloning tool at very low opacity. Good Work. Oct 8th
63 Oct 19 Comment Hi Dan: You have captured the flower and butterfly very well, and with your 70-200 with the 2X converter you would need to use f/16 as you have done to obtain complete depth of field on the flower and butterfly. The use of f/16 for good depth of field on the flower also adds another issue, busy backgrounds. Sharon has mentioned the background being quite busy and distracting and I tend to concur.
My own personal opinion; In botanical photography the background needs to compliment and support the main subject, if your background is busy it distracts from an otherwise fine flower and butterfly image. In post processing try to darken the background and even diffuse it a little if you can, this would place more emphasis on the main subject which is really very nice.		 Oct 8th
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