On 2/27/2011 12:29 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Alt title is "Let's eat every bit of Mike's parsley". Saw some black
> fluttering in the garden but easily could have been Spicebush butterflies.
> Seeing these guys on the parsley confirmed they were Black Swallowtails. . .
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> http://www.olyendomike.com/Other/Macro-2010/12031654_kFQEi#1200234896_SCPtB-L-LB
Wonderful subject and composition, perfect focal plane, nice, smooth transition
into OOF and nice bokeh. You must have
had a print in mind, at least unconsciously, as it crops very nicely to 8x10
proportions. :-)
I'd also consider such a crop for the web, to allow the caterpillars to be a
bit bigger without the image being too tall.
On 2/28/2011 4:00 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Thanks, I did notice the blue cast. I did partially adjust it but didn't
> like the full adjustment effects on the background. (You should see the
> original scan) It was in deep shadow late in the day under clear
> skies--shadows are a bit blue then, No? Still it doesn't just look correct.
As I said relative to AG's lake, things may look quite different to someone who
hasn't seen the original subject in
original light. I looked at it with a mind to doing some WB work on it. First,
I simply clicked the neutral WB dropper
on a couple of neutral looking parts of a caterpillar. I liked the effect so
much that I didn't do anything else to color.
I know, it doesn't look anything like what you saw at the time. On the other
hand, it's really nice, and gives a great
impression of what the scene might have looked like much earlier in the day.
> I likely should have adjusted the 'pillars and background separately. Seems
> this is an issue common with Ektar 100 with shadows going blue---I think
> especially when scanned on the Frontier.
The Color Balance tool in PS (CRTL-B) allows separate adjustments for shadows,
midtones and highlights. I don't use it
often, but sometimes its just the ticket.
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> Many, many reports of this problem in the shadows--may be due to the
> saturation of the film that amps up the colors .
> Perhaps a scanning fix is in order.
It must be hard having to live with scans over which you have almost no
control. Scanning myself, using profiles in
VueScan, I don't have anything like the troubles with WB you run into. Yes, I
know how much extra time you have to do
your own scans. ;-) And you are used to sending bodies out to be scanned, so
why not film. :-)
> So, in metamorphosis all turns to soup and gets reorganized. How could the
> memory possibly persist and thus how could they be liable, you ask? Well
> amazingly memories seem to survive metamorphosis.
Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tsu, dreamed I was a butterfly flying happily here
and there, enjoying life without knowing
who I was. Suddenly I woke up and I was indeed Chuang Tsu. Did Chuang Tsu dream
he was a butterfly, or did the butterfly
dream he was Chuang Tsu?
- Chuang Tsu, Inner Chapters, Tr. Feng and England.
> . . . Well, they are colorful, handsome little critters so I suppose I'll let
> them off the hook.
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> A not litigious, Mike
They wouldn't last until the court date, anyway. :-)
Flutterby Moose
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