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Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby surenj on Wed May 23, 2012 8:58 pm

What y'all think?

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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby ATJ on Wed May 23, 2012 9:49 pm

Pretty good but would work better if the butterfly was not cropped and was sharper in the right image.
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby aim54x on Wed May 23, 2012 11:53 pm

Nice work...but yes if there wasnt clipping it would be better.
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby PiroStitch on Thu May 24, 2012 1:41 am

Nice capture.

The clipping is due to the new forum update I think. If you view the image by itself, there's no clipping
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby CraigVTR on Thu May 24, 2012 7:32 am

Works well except for the previously mentioned reasons. I suspect the right shot was all you had left with which to work.
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby ATJ on Thu May 24, 2012 9:38 am

PiroStitch wrote:The clipping is due to the new forum update I think. If you view the image by itself, there's no clipping

What I'm seeing is nothing to do with the forum. The edge of the wing, one antenna and part of the other are cropped.
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby Remorhaz on Thu May 24, 2012 9:42 am

The left shot is beautiful - with this pair of images I'd be tempted to ditch the right and just go with the single image on the left.
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby PiroStitch on Thu May 24, 2012 11:02 am

ATJ wrote:What I'm seeing is nothing to do with the forum. The edge of the wing, one antenna and part of the other are cropped.


Ah you're right :)
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby sirhc55 on Thu May 24, 2012 2:57 pm

I agree that the left hand image is a standout. As suggested drop the right image and just have the left :wink:
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby Matt. K on Thu May 24, 2012 7:39 pm

Like Sirhc55 says...
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby rflower on Thu May 24, 2012 10:39 pm

:agree: Keep the left image.

In addition to this, I would crop the leaf from the bottom right side of the image. Once I noticed it, it kept drawing my attention away from the mian flower and butterfly.
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby surenj on Mon May 28, 2012 9:01 pm

ATJ wrote:Pretty good but would work better if the butterfly was not cropped and was sharper in the right image.

Unfortunately, The second image was OOF as I just snapped it when the butterfly decided to leave the flower. I guess I wanted to 'make' it work by doing a diptych.

aim54x wrote:Nice work...but yes if there wasnt clipping it would be better.

See above.

PiroStitch wrote:Nice capture.
The clipping is due to the new forum update I think. If you view the image by itself, there's no clipping

Hi Piro, I think people mean that I didn't capture the whole B'fly in the second.

ATJ wrote:What I'm seeing is nothing to do with the forum. The edge of the wing, one antenna and part of the other are cropped.

Correct.

Remorhaz wrote:The left shot is beautiful - with this pair of images I'd be tempted to ditch the right and just go with the single image on the left.

Fair call. I gave the left one 4 stars in LR. 8) :wink:

sirhc55 wrote:I agree that the left hand image is a standout. As suggested drop the right image and just have the left
Matt. K wrote:A Onetych!
rflower wrote: Keep the left image.

Thanks. I see a pattern developing here.

CraigVTR wrote:I suspect the right shot was all you had left with which to work.

Well I have a few more from this session but perhaps not for a diptych that tells a story.

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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby Remorhaz on Tue May 29, 2012 8:03 am

#1 and #2 pity about the barbed wire - #2 may have looked very nice from directly above?

#3 gets the thumbs up although I'm not entirely sure about the crop
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby biggerry on Sun Jun 03, 2012 12:15 am

Have you considered using the othe rimages and making a tych image but not of images all teh same size or format? There are some tidy image sthere and I am sure you could arrange them in a fashion to improve teh presentation, even if there is not direct story.
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby zafra52 on Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:30 am

I agree with biggerry and others. The first picture is
excellent; the second detracts from the whole. Use
another picture;maybe one from a diferent angle.
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby surenj on Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:45 pm

zafra52 wrote:I agree with biggerry and others. The first picture is
excellent; the second detracts from the whole. Use
another picture;maybe one from a diferent angle.

Fair call.

biggerry wrote:Have you considered using the othe rimages and making a tych image but not of images all teh same size or format? There are some tidy image sthere and I am sure you could arrange them in a fashion to improve teh presentation, even if there is not direct story.

Ta. Will have a look.

Remorhaz wrote:#1 and #2 pity about the barbed wire - #2 may have looked very nice from directly above?

#3 gets the thumbs up although I'm not entirely sure about the crop

I thought the barbed wire added a sense of harshness which is offset by the butterfly. :P Art perhaps?? :surrender: :mrgreen:
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby chrisk on Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:54 pm

surenj wrote:I thought the barbed wire added a sense of harshness which is offset by the butterfly. :P Art perhaps?? :surrender: :mrgreen:


count me as a fan of the barbed wire. i think its a cool touch.
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Re: Diptych of a Butterfly

Postby surenj on Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:09 pm

Rooz wrote:count me as a fan of the barbed wire. i think its a cool touch.

I knew someone out there would be a barbed wire fan! :mrgreen:
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