Meeting For Drinks

[JimL]

Editing done in Lightroom 2 which seem a good upgrade but saves photos extremely slow on my 1 gb ram computer.



JimL

[eddie haskell]

Dude....they are too young for that!

Good one Jimmie boy!

[andkiich]

One of hte bets shots I've seen from you jim. I like the colors, the sharpness and the composition. Nice job.

[Jan]

Jim this is really beautiful. The colours, clarity and composition are wonderful.

[yellalablady]

Excellent, Jim. I love it. Did you add one of these, or are they both real?

[JimL]

Thanks for the very nice comments.
Both butterflies are real but the colors, particularly the one on the viewers' right, have been significantly altered. It was a uniform, drab, brownish color.
Of course it has been cropped and a vignette applied.

JimL

[PPPhoto]

Jim, I don't know if it's the screen on my laptop, or maybe just me, but I'm not real crazy about the look of this. Composition looks good, maybe a tad tight on the right, but otherwise fine. There is just something about the butterflies that looks flat to me. I'm not seeing the detail on their bodies like I want to. The flowers seem fine, so it might be just the adjustments you did to these critters.

I don't mean to be too critical. I check it later on my other computer and see how it looks on the other screen.

[JimL]

Be as critical as you wish. I too think it is a little tight on the right but, to me, it looked better than the other choices I tried using the square crop. The right hand butterfly had more adjustments to it because of the color and because of the f 2.8 the DOF left it much softer than the one in the center. I tried to mitigate the softness by selective sharpening which falls into a more subjective appearance area.

Thanks for commenting.
JimL