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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Mark Nadler on December 10, 2019, 10:29:14 pm

Title: Buckeye Butterfly, Late Afternoon Light
Post by: Mark Nadler on December 10, 2019, 10:29:14 pm

Comments welcomed.

mark

Title: Re: Buckeye Butterfly, Late Afternoon Light
Post by: PeterAit on December 11, 2019, 10:07:39 am

Quote from: Mark Nadler on December 10, 2019, 10:29:14 pm

Comments welcomed.

mark

They are gorgeous creatures! I don't know why, but I think the head should be up.

Title: Re: Buckeye Butterfly, Late Afternoon Light
Post by: Mark Nadler on December 11, 2019, 01:37:20 pm

Peter, I know what you mean about the orientation of the butterfly but what you see is what I saw.
I guess I can perform advanced surgery and flip the butterfly but in this case I would rather leave it
the way I found it. 

mark

Title: Re: Buckeye Butterfly, Late Afternoon Light
Post by: sdwilsonsct on December 11, 2019, 02:36:00 pm

The thumbnail is less-saturated than the full-size version on my screen. The less-saturated version looks more natural to me.

Title: Re: Buckeye Butterfly, Late Afternoon Light
Post by: Mark Nadler on December 11, 2019, 07:23:09 pm

sdwilsonsct, no comment on your preference for the less saturated image.  Let me give you
some background on the image's lighting: this butterfly was close to the ground lit up by a low
organge sun.  I can't vouch for the exact intensityt of the light without going back and looking at the original
image.  I shoot in raw.  I can tell you that this critter popped out visually long before I got to it.
What you see in the thumbnail is not even close to how it appeared.

mark