Butterfly Dining

[wposloski]

I find it difficult to decide how to present a macro shot over the net. What I love most about macros is seeing detail that is not apparent in "normal" views. It is hard to present that level of detail and a pleasing composition in 640 x 640. For those who like to "zoom in" here is a link to the gallery where you can get a closer look.
http://gallery.photographyreview.com...sort=1&cat=508

Bill

[dadas115]

Nice shot. I know exactly what you mean about the 640 limit thing. My recent vulture picture was a victim of this as well I think. The picture I posted was a full frame image scaled down to 600 lines of resolution for viewing here. The comment I got mentioned about not having enough detail. Macros are especially bad for this. I find that when I am presenting macro images at a place like this I usually really crop them like crazy to show the detail. Of course this makes the picture very different from how the original picture was but it will show off the interesting detail that macro is so good at bringing out. All that aside, if this were my picture I would probably crop it quite a bit tighter. I would crop off about half of the flower and pretty much all the open space at the bottom and really concentrate on the butterfly. Of course if you do that then you don’t get to see so much of its environment so it is a bit of a trade off.

Greg

[Clicker]

I find it difficult to decide how to present a macro shot over the net. What I love most about macros is seeing detail that is not apparent in "normal" views. It is hard to present that level of detail and a pleasing composition in 640 x 640. For those who like to "zoom in" here is a link to the gallery where you can get a closer look.
http://gallery.photographyreview.com...sort=1&cat=508

Bill

WOW, big difference from the 6440x640 to the one in the gallery...makes me wonder how much i missed on all the other macros posted here!

Your image is wonderful, from the color and composition to the detail in the guys little head... Also, I like the way the wings are out of focus, lets you focus your detail on the diner and the petals.
Thanks!

[Spike]

You're not kidding about sacrificing detail to meet the image size limits! The version of your shot that you linked to in the Gallery is wonderful. I like the crop better, and you really did an excellent job of capturing detail on the butterfly's head. Because this butterfly is so bland in color, I think in your full frame picture the flower dominates, which isn't what I think you want. Also, the limited dof seems to favor the flower over the bf too. So the crop works much better, imho.

Spike

I find it difficult to decide how to present a macro shot over the net. What I love most about macros is seeing detail that is not apparent in "normal" views. It is hard to present that level of detail and a pleasing composition in 640 x 640. For those who like to "zoom in" here is a link to the gallery where you can get a closer look.
http://gallery.photographyreview.com...sort=1&cat=508

Bill

[gahspidy]

I like the angle you took this from and the sheerness of the bf wings translucent almost. I think I would crop this into a square from the left right up to the flower. good shot

[wposloski]

Greg, Rachel, Spike and Gary,
Thanks your comments and suggestions.

There seemed to be agreement of most that a tighter crop was needed. I certainly can't argue with that. One of the things that I was trying to do with this photo was "contrast" the very rich colour of the flower with the drab almost monochromatic background and bf. At the same time I wanted to show detail. I guess the lesson here is "You can't do it all."

Gary, I'm glad you noticed the "translucency" of the bf wings. The sun was getting low and I was shooting from the "shadowed" side. You can see the shadow of the abdomen on the wing.

Bill