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With Wings Dragons Do Fly
With Wings Dragons Do Fly
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Challenge: Insects II (Minimal Editing I*)
Camera: Olympus C-8080
Location: Indoors in my child's room
Date: Apr 15, 2007
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/2
Galleries: Animals, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Apr 15, 2007

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I could not resist. I have not been able to do photography for almost a month because of emergency surgery.

I said on another website that my days of shooting a conceptual shot with live insects is over. Never say never because I decided to challenge myself once again to do an imaginative piece.

It took 2 hours of patient work to get the butterfly to sit on my child's toy dragon. A castle ornament from the fish tank was added to the background for ambience to the scene.

Oh and we let the butterfly go this afternoon.

Statistics
Place: 54 out of 180
Avg (all users): 6.1071
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.9884
Avg (non-participants): 6.2000
Views since voting: 911
Views during voting: 370
Votes: 196
Comments: 17
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 11/30/2008 02:38:54 PM
i dont know .. but you must have great communication with those insects .. like a psychic connection .. another brilliant image .. :)
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 04/23/2007 06:26:34 AM
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
Can you explain how you got the 1 pixel grey border almost all the way around? I can't figure that out.


Huh, I had not noticed that Karen. Now that you mention it, it is rather odd. I would attribute it to the large original file being resized down in one stop to 640X480.

I went back to the two photos that I captured that are 7 seconds apart and virtually identical. The first one, I resized from the original file size of 3264 x 2448 down to 640x480 and did not get that 1 pixel border. The second shot that is virtually identical I resized and got that 1 pixel border. I did the test resize several times and got varying results that are driving me crazy. My photo was validated during the voting but I am now writing to the SC on this 1 pixel artifact border issue.

Edit: Doh! When trying to replicate a problem one should:

Don't overthink.

Make sure you get a good night's sleep.

Make sure you are following ALL the steps you did in EACH & EVERY test :the missing factor that was not applied to all tests was the one time sharpening.

RESULT: Resizing down from 3264 x 2448 to 640x480 then sharpen will result in that 1 pixel wide artifact border.


Message edited by author 2007-04-23 12:07:46.
 04/23/2007 03:25:43 AM
Can you explain how you got the 1 pixel grey border almost all the way around? I can't figure that out.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/22/2007 07:15:09 PM
I like how the two subjects make a whole! Great work! 8
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 04/22/2007 04:18:01 PM
clever shot! I would love to see the colors on that butterfly!
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 04/22/2007 03:40:26 PM
Love the composition and the way the butterfly appears to be looking at the camera.
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 04/21/2007 05:33:06 PM
Nice juxtaposition.
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 04/20/2007 03:54:18 AM
Great use of B&W, I like the dragon in this picture too.
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 04/18/2007 12:28:18 PM
Interesting, I don't think I've ever seen a butterfly on a dragon statue before! I can't help but think that this would be better in colour. I would love to see the colours of the butterfly. Your title doesn't make sense gramatically, sorry.
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 04/17/2007 07:09:23 PM
The dark castle(?) in the right draws my attention away from the lighter butterfly and dragon. Still, this is a very good image.
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 04/17/2007 07:02:06 PM
great picture! Not so sure about the dragon! 8
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 04/16/2007 07:05:02 PM
would love to see color version.
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 04/16/2007 01:42:36 PM
Nice shot, but what's a butterfly without colors?
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 04/16/2007 09:35:09 AM
This is a great idea. Wonderful composition and I like the shadow of the castle behind the butterfly. Need more focus on the butterfly. I like the black and white, but would also like to see this one in color.
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 04/16/2007 06:30:16 AM
I love this. To bad it's minimal editing and you can't get rid of the shadow!
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 04/16/2007 06:24:08 AM
How lucky was this? Love the title! 9
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 04/15/2007 11:48:56 PM
Oo nice concept
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