Which Butterfly (or one caterpillar)?

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14 years
Woking

Posted 12/04/2015 - 16:42 Link

I have a nature competition coming up at my club in a couple of weeks and I'm undecided which of the following images to include in my entries. I'd welcome opinions as to which is the strongest image.

All were taken this year with a Tamron SP90 and a K-5iiS at RHS Wisley when they had the butterflies in the Glasshouse. The competition is subject to the 'normal' sort of nature competition rules, so the only adjustments which are allowed are cropping and levels, etc., so no cloning out of inconvenient bits of greenery or background.

1) Blue Morpho 1

2) Blue Morpho 2

3) Scarlet Swallowtail 1

4) Scarlet Swallowtail 2

5) Common Lime Caterpillar

All other C&Cs welcome.
Phil

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Pjy123 Pjy123

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Kibworth harcourt

Posted 12/04/2015 - 16:46 Link

No 3 for me

McGregNi McGregNi

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Posted 12/04/2015 - 18:27 Link

I think No 1 is the only contender .... it has a good focus on the subject and the surrounds are complementary. The others have too much space around and are overly 'busy' with other elements in my view.

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stu62 stu62

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Posted 12/04/2015 - 19:55 Link

McGregNi wrote:
I think No 1 is the only contender .... it has a good focus on the subject and the surrounds are complementary. The others have too much space around and are overly 'busy' with other elements in my view.

i second that

you could do some cropping on no2 and see how that comes out