Final few from butterfly set

[matthews677]

Any tips are more than welcome thank you.

1.
poking his tongue out by matthews677, on Flickr

2.
untitled-5054 by matthews677, on Flickr

3.
untitled-5061 by matthews677, on Flickr

4.
red admiral by matthews677, on Flickr

i would have liked a bit more of the red admiral (4) but i couldnt get anything else sadly. look forward to your critique

 

[Elines]

The actual butterflies are crisp and the colours are good.

So that leaves mainly composition.

For me the first one has too much green/the butterfly is too small - maybe cropping in would improve it?

In the second most of the action ie the bit in focus is in a horizontal line across the middle, which tends to make for an uninteresting photo (in my opinion)

Similar with the third.

To me, composition of the fourth is much the best - a larger proportion of the picture is in focus with enough background blur to make the subject stand out

 

[matthews677]

Thank you for your comment elines. If I try another set I will take on board what you have said and try to improve them

 

[Elines]

Good luck - it's so much easier to see how a photograph can be improved, as opposed to getting it all right in the first place - just wouldn't want you to think my photographs of butterflies are significantly better than yours - it's difficult to try to get everything right when actually taking the shot - foreground, unobtrusive background, angles, perspective, thirds, colour, contrast, shapes, textures and all the rest of it.

 

[Surrey Weddings]

i've chased butterflies around too, they are quite tricky so well done on nice shots... the uncluttered composition of the 1st one my fav

 

[Fido25]

I've recently tried taking photos of Butterflies and it is difficult. The first one is my favourite.

 

[matthews677]

Thanks for your comments

 

[fido18]

Lovely colours and good composition.