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Winged Translucence

© Mary N C. Taitt

Winged Translucence

Uploaded: October 01, 2005

Description

Butterfly in a ray of sun near sunset, f/9.5, 1/125s, 100 mm lens (35 mm equiv 159 mm), ISO 400, Meadowbrook Park, Syracuse, NY.

I generally prefer very sharp pictures so it was with great trepidation that I applied several layers of blurring to this photo. I was trying to reproduce the haloed effect that was so lovely in the light tonight. I did one in color and one sepia and decided I preferred the sepia for this particular shot.

I wasn't sure what category to enter it in, so I chose digital darkroom because I changed it so much from the original.

Comments

Leanne M.E. Boyd October 02, 2005

Wow, this is really different - and that is the reason why I like it! #319757

Jenny Bosmans October 02, 2005

Unique image, Mary!! You did very well, I like this one too! #1907381

Kerby Pfrangle October 02, 2005

Mary a golden butterfly this is different, unique and awesome.

Love this. Kerby #1907395

Jill Odice level-classic October 02, 2005

You accomplished what you set out to do admirably Mary! This is lovely...Just like the light at that special time of day..:-) #1907434

Joy Rector October 02, 2005

beautiful, great technique #1907640

Bianca B. Steinfeldt October 02, 2005

Wonderful ... I love the sepia effect and the warm feeling. It looks like to me, this was taken in a wonder land. Very well done, Mary #1908837

Dan McConoughey October 02, 2005

Mary, I'm with you on sharpness, but there is something about this image that I like. Kinda sharp kinda not, a little to bright, kinda not. Very different and I like it. Hope you recorded what you did so you can recreate it. Lovely image. #1909676

Shelly A. Van Camp level-classic October 03, 2005

Very cool image, Mary..I like it :) #1911511

Mary N C. Taitt October 03, 2005

Thank you Leanne, Jenny, Kerby, Jill, Joy, Bianca, Dan, and Shelly--I really appreciate your taking time with this, and you kind comments.

I did NOT record what I did and I just went back and looked on photoshop at the history and the history is gone. I don't know if it goes when you close the file, or it it's because I made so many versions of it, making duplicate files to try different ideas. I never really thought about it. I wonder if there is a way to record the history. Other than manually, because I did so many things: I darkened and blurred the background and blurred the whole image twice and blurred the edges with the blur tool. I fiddled not only with the sepia, but with light and saturation. And I cropped it, close. Much closer than I was in real life!! LOL--it was a nervous butterfly, not as cooperative as some. #1914257

Pamela Shane October 09, 2005

This is a spectacular image Mary - so very different. I love it! #1932674

Goshka G. October 13, 2005

Gorgeous translusence!! #1948651

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