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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Photobombing Insect
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 10:01:53 -0500
References: <CANYyKx_vm3deJ8+YxZ-2ESo-mmKqtdZK17Q6Ajcfp59QMryNuw@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks, Alan.  I'll take a look at it.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 7/5/2017 9:31 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote:
>
>
>> On a breezy 4th, I was concentrating on this Skipper and did not see the
>> smaller insect making a photobombing pass near his head.
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20170704-DSCF2723.JPG.html
> <http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20170704-DSCF2723.JPG.html>
>
>> Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.
> --
>> Jim Nichols
> ============================================================================================================================
> This is very nice, but I think you could make it better if you darkened the
> skipper a little and darkened the corners a lot, especially behind the
> butterfly and the foreground flowers.  Then our eyes would go to the area
> where the large and small bugs meet.
>
> BETTER YET: crop just to the left of the skippers leg, and just above the
> (darkened) out of focus flower behind the upper antennae.  You don't need
> all the rest of the picture.



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