Painted Lady

[Tom Barry]

Small in size, but colorful:

Painted Lady butterfly on Mistflower by tombarry975, on Flickr

[Shadowman]

Very colorful, nicely captured.

[Kodiak]

Small in size, but colorful:

Yes Tom, and the take is so clean and crisp!
I do believe, though, it could be rendered with better highlights control
and bring back details in the mid tones. Something like this:

[Tom Barry]

Yes Tom, and the take is so clean and crisp!
I do believe, though, it could be rendered with better highlights control
and bring back details in the mid tones. Something like this:

Thanks. I like that.

[Caddy]

And how do you work on mid tones specifically?

[Kodiak]

And how do you work on mid tones specifically?

It is important to know it can be done… I'm sharing the tip. For the rest, I did
my homework and I will pass it to my sons who in turn have to do theirs.

[IzzieK]

Just my opinion...I like the first one though it needs a bit of cropping at the bottom flowers ... to show more emphasis on the butterfly...

[deetheturk]

Very nice Tom, even better with Kodiak's edit!

David

[bnnrcn]

Very nice shot Tom