Mentor Group project --
When I was photographing monarch butterflies today at the big field, I had our mentoring group in mind. I would normally only imagine the final product as a color photo. Today, I paid more attention to capturing the butterfly in a way that would lend itself to a structural emphasis through b&w. Here's the original...b&w is in extras album - http://365project.org/taffy/the-also-ran-ph/2014-08-01. (365 friends -- don't feel obligated to comment about this -- my mentor group is working on b&w and this is assignment 1 for us).
A fab macro of this beautiful butterfly -great dof, colour detail, and precision of image this butterfly truly deserves the colour nature has intended -- and I can only merit the b/w image for an artist as something to encourage the artist to find the true depth of tone when painting it ( a technique I often used to aid me in my watercolour paintings ) So Taffy my preference for the final article is in the colour version ! FAV
I thought you may be interested to know that I put a butterfly shot into the Camera Club when I first joined and the judge said the butterfly was competing with the bright flower and I needed to darken down the flower. At the time I didn't have a clue what to do so I may re-work it now and post on here sometime.
Interesting comment from the judge and it makes total sense. I've done a few like that and they always look interesting to me, but that there is too much going on. Though I like showing a butterfly in context. Tag me when you post it if you think about it.
I thought you may be interested to know that I put a butterfly shot into the Camera Club when I first joined and the judge said the butterfly was competing with the bright flower and I needed to darken down the flower. At the time I didn't have a clue what to do so I may re-work it now and post on here sometime.