Thanks, Bob. I may have overdone it a bit with curves. ;-)
And as for the noise, I was shooting at high ISO. I don't know how to pull the exif data on my phone, but I do recall shooting as high as 1250 ISO that day. I wanted to try a really tiny aperture for a wide dof - I think that shot was f16. Thank you for your comment. All your points well-taken. Cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Bob W <[email protected]> Sent: September 18, 2012 9/18/12 To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: PESO - Lunch > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > > I was having second thoughts about the title for exactly that reason. > Also, the photo was taken late afternoon so it wasn't even lunch time. > > I'm glad you commented because I was beginning to wonder if my post > made the list. I was getting paranoid: "Is it that bad a photo?" > > So, if anyone's reading this, let me know what you think, even if you > think it's bad. As Boris says, "be brutal". > > I actually think it's a good photo but on my android the colour looks > off. Also I am now wondering if it needs to be cropped a bit so we > can't see the bottom edge of the wing. I think this is a very detailed, > well-focused close up. Maybe my feelings have affected my ability to > properly critique this photo. > > So, have at it! "Yay or nay" (to quote another list member). If it can > be improved let me know that, too. As I said I think I have at least > the seed of a very good photo, so if you think it can be saved I'd like > to know how. > It's a nice subject and nicely composed - difficult to get anything new or astounding with such subject matter though unless you're a lepidopterist, or whatever manner of person it is that knows about these things. The light is just right for it, but it does seem over-saturated to me, and there seems to be a lot of noise in there among the greenery. I like being able to see the pollen standing out on the butterly's wings. B > Thanks everyone! > > ;-) > > cheers, > frank > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Bob W <[email protected]> > Sent: September 18, 2012 9/18/12 > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: PESO - Lunch > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of frank theriault > > > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/09/lunch.html > > > > you ate a butterfly? I thought you were Vegan! > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
