My First Butterfly

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• nglen (32250)
• [2007-08-12 8:03]

Hi Jane. Your first this year i am sure thier will be a lot more. It has nice markings which you have captured well. Good colours and detail. A nice pose on the bright flowers. with a good POV/DOF. very well done TFS.
Nick..

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• uleko (2877)
• [2007-08-12 8:09]

Wow, congratulations Jane!!
I'm glad you've got hold of a butterfly at last as well! This one is a real beauty and I love its pose amongst those pretty Lantana flowers. Pretty good sharpness and wonderful colours. A really nice composition!
Many thanks and regards, Ulla

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• rbassin (244)
• [2007-08-12 8:28]

Hello Jane,
cette macro est composée de très belles couleurs et une bonne profondeur de champ.
Le papillon est bien positionné au sommet de l'image.
Roland

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• ben4321 (0)
• [2007-08-12 8:31]
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Your shot is well framed and gives us a good look at this attractive butterfly, but there's a strange softness to the whole image that spoils it a bit.
It looks to me like you applied some over-aggressive noise reduction, which has caused a loss of fine detail throughout the image. I think a sharper image, even with lots of digital noise, would have worked a lot better. If you didn't use noise reduction in your PP, then try setting in-camera noise reduction to it's minimum setting, or even better turn it off completely. I'm sure your images will benefit from it.

Cheers,
Ben

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• batu (13364)
• [2007-08-12 9:08]
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• gracious (13068)
• [2007-08-12 9:25]

My friend Jane,
Glad to see your butterfly captured in such a beautiful composition indeed!
good clarity, pov, vivid colour with flowers and details
very well done
cheers
Tony

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• joey (24727)
• [2007-08-12 11:34]

Hi Jane,
congratulations on photographing a butterfly!!!
Great composition and detail.
Well done,
Joe

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• ridvan (5196)
• [2007-08-12 11:39]

selam jane, excellent shot and very good composition of this lovely butterfly nice pov and bg with splendid colours.good details presented
Well done !
Regards ridvan

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• jmirah (4665)
• [2007-08-12 15:16]

Hi Jane,
Excellent capture. Absolutely beautiful colors. A fine photo. Well done.

TFS
Jim

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• jcoowanitwong (12123)
• [2007-08-12 17:38]

Hi Jane,
Nice seeing a butterfly from you. Great color clarity. Beautifully composed. TFS this fine image.
JC

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• arfer (0)
• [2007-08-12 20:01]

Hello Jane

A beautiful butterfly on beautiful flowers.Very well composed with lovely colours.The composition is well done.Nicely done.TFS

Rob

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• pankajbajpai (16507)
• [2007-08-12 21:30]

hi jane,
congratulations on your first butterfly post on TN. The butterfly resting on lantana has been composed well, nice colours, suitable pov,
i got another post for my theme butterflies on lantana,
tfs & regards
pankaj

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• demeve (5995)
• [2007-08-13 1:03]

Hello Jane,
Very beautiful 1st butterfly, I love how you captured it going deep in the flower and the blurred BG. Great POV, very well composed, and excellent sharpness.

Everton.

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• Janice (18648)
• [2007-08-13 2:41]
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Jane,

I have added my critique to Batu / Peter's message to you.

I'm sorry but I cannot agree with the comments above me that say how sharp your photo is.

The butterfly has shaky marks all around it. It isn't sharp.

I hope you will read this, and understand that truth is better then hollow praise.

Ben4321 has given you an excellent critique, and so has Batu in his message to you. Please take note of them both. You seem to have a love for taking photos, so I'm sure you'll find them very helpful.

Cheers
Janice

PS. If you need any help or suggestions, I am always keen to help.

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• angybone (7672)
• [2007-08-13 4:06]

...and you did a mighty fine job! You're just good with 'winged things.' :)

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• EOSF1 (23469)
• [2007-08-13 8:41]

And it's a nice beginning Jane, strong composition, good light, great background and well focused. A bit of noise though but a great shot anyway ! Thanks,

Mario

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• Mana (18518)
• [2007-08-13 13:56]

Hi Jane,
Your first butterfly shot is just wonderful. It gives us an impression of what is going to come. here, on the beautiful lantanas it sits elegantly, busy sucking nectar. Lovely colours and patterns on its wings and it stands out well against the BG. Excellent POV to portray it and very nicely composed. Kudos.
TFS.
Sumon

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• GLEM (6119)
• [2007-08-13 22:49]

bonjour Jane
ça y est tu as chopé le virus de la macro :D tant mieux pour nous car je suis sûr que les images vont me plaire.
Malgré du bruit résiduel et un papillon dans la feuille, les couleurs sont vraiment agréables, la composition soignée.

gaetan

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• Matt-Bird (1930)
• [2007-08-14 0:55]

Hi Jane
A good photo, nice use of thirds. It is a little grainy but still a good shot. with nice colours.
regards
Matt.

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• ramthakur (32178)
• [2007-08-14 1:00]

Congratulations on your first butterfly image, Jane.
I think you have done a good job here.
Very good point of view and lovely colors on the butterfly.
I think Ben has a point regarding some kind of compression noise in the picture. You could certainly find out why and remedy it in your next effort.
Best regards.

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• haraprasan (17792)
• [2007-08-14 2:16]

Hi Jane,
A beautiful capture of this butterfly. Nice POV and very good composition. Sorry don't know the ID. Thanks a lot for sharing.

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• JORAPAVI (4627)
• [2007-08-15 4:46]

Hola Jane,
Preciosa composición de esta bella mariposa, buena definicióon con una luz y colores fantásticos, saludos
José Ramón

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• Argus (35107)
• [2007-08-15 9:50]

Hello Jane,
Great that you have started photographing butterflies!
Peter is right about the ID: the English name is Scudder's Patched Butterfly. The colors and composition are excellent, but there is a kind of softness about this image.
Look forward to seeing more butterfly shots from you!
TFS,
Ivan

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• janhendrik (2386)
• [2007-08-18 14:30]

Hi Jane,

A great shot of this butterfly, good compo, I like it, well done.

Jan-Hendrik

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• captainsgirl (4082)
• [2007-10-09 16:56]

Hi Jane,
beautiful butterfly, great pov. TFS
Donna:o)

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• tiklod (3397)
• [2007-10-13 7:12]

Hi Jane,
It's maybe your first butterfly but you did it like your other photos... like a pro.
The point of view and the vivid colours are very beautiful. Excellent shot :-)
Thanks,

Claude