Lang`s short-tailed blue

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Hia ll,
Well lucky me I found another new one for the records, a Lang`s short-tailed blue, Its been a great year with finding and photographing all these new to me butterflies.
Sadly I didnt get a shot with the wings open :(
Your thoughts please.
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Graham said:
Your thoughts please.
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The posted version has a very long tail at the bottom end, but bringing up the bottom end doesn't bring up the eye. I think it has lost all detail. The wings look rather light to me, and a bit lacking in detail, but I think bringing the highlights down reveals some more detail (or makes it more easily seen at least). Our visual tastes are rather different I think and so I don't know how you would like the balance of this to look, but just as an illustration of the sort of changes I think might be made here is a screenshot from Lightroom. (EDIT. Looking again: too far perhaps - too dark.)


NOT MY IMAGE - Graham Butterfly in Lightroom by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
 
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GardenersHelper said:
The posted version has a very long tail at the bottom end, but bringing up the bottom end doesn't bring up the eye. I think it has lost all detail. The wings look rather light to me, and a bit lacking in detail, but I think bringing the highlights down reveals some more detail (or makes it more easily seen at least). Our visual tastes are rather different I think and so I don't know how you would like the balance of this to look, but just as an illustration of the sort of changes I think might be made here is a screenshot from Lightroom. (EDIT. Looking again: too far perhaps - too dark.)


NOT MY IMAGE - Graham Butterfly in Lightroom by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
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Cheers nick, I don't use LR, my pp is with GIMP and I always use the colour curve to brighen or darken things in a shot, I did infact darken the body and lighten the outer parts I think.
Another programme I use is a Microsoft programme to help with sharpening.
As you say, we all have different tastes but I'm happy for others to have a play.
 
I really like the OP version tbh... are the inner wings amazing then cause the outside are great.

Colours way better than recent posts lol ;)
 
Tintin124 said:
I really like the OP version tbh... are the inner wings amazing then cause the outside are great.

Colours way better than recent posts lol ;)
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Cheers bryn, the inner wings are blue, with this shot I upped the sats just a tiny tad :)
 
Neil Burnell said:
I think thats a cracking image graham! This is where i would use layer masks to get the best of both worlds!
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Cheers very much Neil, image layer, total gobaldygook if you ask me, no idea what that is ;)
 
Beautiful really nice looks good on my small screen
If they are like the blues that we get in the uk the colours are about right they are quite pale
 
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