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10-07-2009, 09:42 AM
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Butterfly on Flower
 I just wanted to share a photo I took of a butterfly - hope you like it 
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10-07-2009, 09:49 AM
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It's a lovely shot. The butterfly stands out because of the blurry background. TFS.
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10-07-2009, 10:01 AM
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Thats got to be the best Butterfly shot I've seen, 10/10, Love it!!
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10-07-2009, 10:13 AM
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Hi Jonathan and welcome ... this is a beautiful photo .... details are very clear and colors are warm ... nice image to intoduce yourself
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10-07-2009, 10:35 AM
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Welcome to DPS
Fantastic shot. Great detail and good DOF. Thanks for sharing.
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10-07-2009, 10:53 AM
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Welcome to DPS,and a very good entry shot to start with, nice Dof and focus looking forward to more.
Michael
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10-07-2009, 11:46 AM
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Welcome to DPS - lovely capture, butterflies are so hard to shoot as they have a tendancy to fly off at the opportune moment. My only comment would be a slight shift of focus to the left would have captured all the butterfly in focus and thrown the flower out slightly. Hope you don;t mind but i had a little play with the image in Elements
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10-11-2009, 04:04 PM
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If you want to take great photos of a butterfly (or any subject), you will have the greatest success if you patiently observe the features, shape and movement of your subject within a given environment. For this shot, I drove to a butterfly observatory at the Natural History Museum of Gainesville, FL and walked among hundreds of butterflies for over an hour, watching their every movement, every twitch of their wings, flight behavior, etc. Once I felt I'd found a butterfly free of imperfection (great symmetry, no tearing of wings, etc.) I followed ever-so-patiently for just a few minutes until it landed on the flowers you see in the image. I then snapped just two or three photos and kept just this one.
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