Morpho

One more from my trip to the Butterfly House yesterday. This is a morpho butterfly. When they open their wings, you can see a magnificent iridescent blue color. This butterfly was very shy about displaying the blue, but is very handsome, nonetheless. Quite the poser. :)

[Graeme Stevens]

superb detail

[Kathy]

Now it has a big cat pattern. It's beautiful!

[gloria jones]

Stunning capture with superb details, focus, clarity, bokeh :)

[KWind]

Incredible!!

[Diana]

A fabulous close up and detail, fav!

[Carole G]

Beautiful, so hard to catch the with their wings open

[Poppo Livy]

Fabulous close up Rosie

[Lynda McG]

Stunning - fav

[Casablanca]

The eye patterns on the wings look almost 3D. Goodness me, how did you achieve that? Love it.

[haskar]

Great focus

[Clare Gadsby]

just glorious focus and clarity - and, again, such a pretty background

[Joan Robillard]

Beautiful

[Faye Turner]

Beautiful capture with a wonderful bokeh background!

[CC Folk]

Quite lovely...Fav.

[Rosie Kerr]

@casablanca I edited this picture in Photoshop (PS). It helped the the background was far away from my subject. Once I got the image into PS, I made a selection around the butterfly's image and edited that part (lifting the exposure, increasing the contrast, etc.). I hope that helps some. Please let me know if you have other questions. I have learned a tremendous amount from being on this site. :)

[Casablanca]

@rosiekerr Thanks so much for your help. I don't have PS but I do have a similar program (Affinity by Serif) which I have mostly no idea how to use lol, but they have just released a workbook explaining it, so that may help. Novice editor here! I shall check out how to pick out a section of a picture to work on rather than the whole thing. I really like the effect you have here. Thanks for your kindness.