Thursday, July 28, 2011

Seeing 2011 (#121)

For your consideration: a relatively rare submission featuring (highly) selective desaturation; this was done primarily as a practice exercise for certain features in Lightroom. It also served as a major exercise in patience, as my ancient PC can barely handle the strain imposed by the 7D's image sizes (min. 25 MB in RAW format) on the limited video RAM available. New workstation, here we come.

A parallel motive for extensively playing with the color scheme was to play down a bit the otherwise intensely chaotic background to the main performance.

Taken on the grounds of Santa Clara's Kaiser medical complex.



Butterfly Nourishment, #0548-7D

© 2011 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.
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Details: July 18, 2011; Canon 7D; f/8 @ 1/664 sec; —2/3 EV; ISO 1600; Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

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2 comments:

  1. MicahJuly 29, 2011 at 10:03 AM

    Nicely captured. Could you possible increase the vibrance or brightness on this beautiful Eastern Tiger Swallowtail? Maybe lower the contrast on the background as well as the saturation. Just a suggestion.

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  2. saguaroAugust 2, 2011 at 1:04 AM

    Great suggestion, Micah -- I'll look into this!

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