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    Butterfly

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    "Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways.

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    Re: Butterfly

    May I post an alternative version of your pic???

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    Re: Butterfly

    Quote Originally Posted by CarbonTerry
    May I post an alternative version of your pic???
    Sure!

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    "Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways.

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    Re: Butterfly

    Lovely picture.

    I can't tell if it's the JPG compression, but there seem to be some artifacts in certain areas. The DOF is nice but the background is a bit distracting. I'd see if you could darken in a bit.

    If this is cropped at all, and you have any more picture up to the right; I'd consider a recrop where the butterfly is towards the bottom left - it can give the creature somewhere to fly to (up right) and creates a nice effect.

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    Re: Butterfly

    Quote Originally Posted by Pupator
    Lovely picture.

    I can't tell if it's the JPG compression, but there seem to be some artifacts in certain areas. The DOF is nice but the background is a bit distracting. I'd see if you could darken in a bit.

    If this is cropped at all, and you have any more picture up to the right; I'd consider a recrop where the butterfly is towards the bottom left - it can give the creature somewhere to fly to (up right) and creates a nice effect.
    The compression had to be high to get the image be a reasonable file size.

    This was taken with a Canon S400, DOF is huge even wide open. Nothing will blur the background. I've tried using photo editors to do that but I've always made a mess of it!

    This wasn't cropped so there isn't any place to move. Good idea though. To tell the truth, these butterflies were moving very fast. Don't tell anyone that this was a lucky shot!
    "Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways.

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    Re: Butterfly

    I have the complete pic and a proposed crop too.
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