Unidentified Butterfly and Rock

[Lava Lamp]

I photographed this butterfly with a D70 and Tamron 90mm macro set at f/11 and 1/125. It's cropped and photoshopped a little. Do you like it? How would you improve it?

[almo]

I photographed this butterfly with a D70 and Tamron 90mm macro set at f/11 and 1/125. It's cropped and photoshopped a little. Do you like it? How would you improve it?

Personaly I like this as is. It looks as though it is hanging on the edge of a cliff.

Where did you shoot it?

almo

[natatbeach]

I photographed this butterfly with a D70 and Tamron 90mm macro set at f/11 and 1/125. It's cropped and photoshopped a little. Do you like it? How would you improve it?

Your attention to deatila lways amazes me...thanks for taking pics just for me
...just kiding...

anyways...i like the detail and feel. Good textures(although a bit of burning in in the rock to really bring out the roughness vs the velevty look of the butterfly and there is a way too blurred soft spot below the butterfly---you've lost detail in a few spots on the rock..).... composition/DOF-- I like...lighting is beautiful...two small visual nitpicks---the upper left corner has a blue and whitish spot...and I wonder if you have a shot where the antennae isn't directly in line with the edge of the rock (it makes it look like a one antennae butterfly) and maybe sharpen the single antennae a bit to bring it out of the background)

I always enjoy looking at your posts...take care...

[villenadecorte]

Love it- I like the use of space here. My only nitpick is that antennae gets a tad lost against the rock.
Your portrayal of butterflies is amazing- they look so huge and accessible, like you can walk over at touch it- when it is very hard to even get within a foot of one usually without it fluttering off.
Nice job~
VillenaDeCorte

[Steph_B]

I photographed this butterfly with a D70 and Tamron 90mm macro set at f/11 and 1/125. It's cropped and photoshopped a little. Do you like it? How would you improve it?

I like the composition and the colors are very nice. I would maybe have used a tad more DOF to get the whole wings tack sharp (or maybe it's just a result of the file compression).

It looks like the butterfly is hanging on a gem or a piece of quartz! The rock is a bit over-exposed... maybe a bit of burning in PS?

Otherwise, I will have to have a look at your other posting. I am looking for a macro lens for my Nikon system! I like what I see.

Cheers.