Another photographer friend and I went over to the Botanical Gardens this morning since today was the first cool day we have had in a long time. Last two weeks it has been around 100 for the high, so 65 when we headed out felt wonderful. I like the way the yellow flower shows through his wing.
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Canon 7D II, 180 mm L macro lens on a monopod with small gimbal head. Settings f4.5, 1/3200, ISO (auto) 500.
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I like your DOF here, everything that needs to be sharp is, and the background is nicely controlled at the same time. I like that you caught the moth with its wings against the yellow flower (I assume the wings are translucent). Exposure, contrast.color processing look great to me.
I am a little torn on the OOF stem in the upper left corner. It does effectively frame the moth, and fills negative space, so it serves an important purpose. i hope you don’t mind, but Just for fun, I downloaded it and cropped the top and left, and cloned away the remaining stem, just to see how that looks.
Wow, what an improvement! Thanks, Ed. I appreciate that. Sometimes I think I just don’t think about doing things like that while editing. That is why it is nice to have more than one set of eyes. I will make that change. I like what you did. And yes, his wings are translucent, and I too liked very much that the wings happened to be over the yellow flowers in the background. I appreciate you taking your time to view, comment and even edit to show me a better way to present this image.
Shirley: Ed beat me to it on the ULC and I like his revision. Of course the raw material is really good to begin with. I might even crop tighter not so much for a better image but a different one. Nicely done. >=))>
Thank you, Bill. I like that crop too. Both crops are better than what I did. I will have to decide which one I like the best. You guys are really a huge help at helping me see my images in different ways to present them.
Hi Shirley, love these moths and you did a fine job capturing this one. I find them quite a challenge. I think I like Bill’s tight crop best to really show off and focus our attention on the moth. I think I need to raise my shutter speed like you did the next time I find one of these.
