Scarlet Jezebel

[DickyOZ]

It's mating season for these butterflies around here so I was lucky to find one that isn't too battered.

[Dave A]

A well captured image, nice.

Dave

[John 2]

Beautifully captured. Might be worth dropping the surrounding highlights a bit if you can.

[Wavelength]

Lovely

[bje07]

Nice shot, curiously (or not) the harsh light is not visible on his head.
+1 to John's comment

[IzzieK]

Very nice colouring. Very sharp and I can almost feel the texture in the wings tho when we were young, we were told not to touch nor catch butterflies because the wings dust can make us blind if we do.

[Stagecoach]

Gorgeous capture Richard.

For practice I put this through Nik Dfine 2 to see how it would perform then did some selective sharpening, it surprised me.

[DickyOZ]

Gorgeous capture Richard.

For practice I put this through Nik Dfine 2 to see how it would perform then did some selective sharpening, it surprised me.

I would be very interested to see the results Grahame.

[Stagecoach]

I would be very interested to see the results Grahame.

Here it is Richard,

Procedure used - Dfine 2, auto globally, mask and remove noise reduction from body and head, selectively sharpen some areas of body and eye.

[JBW]

I like it

[DickyOZ]

Here it is Richard,

Procedure used - Dfine 2, auto globally, mask and remove noise reduction from body and head, selectively sharpen some areas of body and eye.

Thanks Grahame - it has dragged out a lot more detail. I must invest in more sophisticated photo editing software.

[Stagecoach]

Thanks Grahame - it has dragged out a lot more detail. I must invest in more sophisticated photo editing software.

NIK software is free