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For some reason, the ladybirds are swarming all over the parsley at the moment. They move incredibly fast. You don't realise it until you start chasing them with a macro lens.


Lit by a single flash above through a homemade softbox.
I desaturated the parsley slightly in post.

Comments, suggestions welcomed.

Beautiful colours Greg!

I think the lady bird could benefit from a boost of color and slight sharpening.

What if you rotated the photo 90 degress to the right?

OK,
Here is a reworked image. Rotated Clockwise & square crop as the old crop did not work with the rotation.
Desaturated the parsley some more. I also decreased brightness & increased saturation slightly on the ladybird .
Personally, I prefer the first as I know the habit of the flower (upright!) & this just looks wrong. It remains an interesting exploration however.

Keep up the suggestions Surenj (and others). You are pushing me to learn more about Capture NX2 than I ever realised was there. I have somehow managed to get two colour control points to work in tandem (Move one control & they both move). This pair controls the parsley. Now all I have to do is work out how I did it, so I can do it again. I have a third independent one to control the ladybird.


 PS. Just noticed I have the caption wrong in EXIF. Ah well