Plain Tigers

[wong1979]

A morning shoot at pasir ris park:







C&C on composition is welcomed.

[tang90246]

sharp.... very beautiful... what lens are u using?

[wong1979]

Originally Posted by tang90246 sharp.... very beautiful... what lens are u using?

Thx, I'm using EF 70-300 IS with 500D CU filter.

[tankm]

Nice shot...like #2

[tltan]

I like #1 most. But I think the subject, the butterfly has been overwhelmed by the background.

I think if the picture is cropped, it might work better? Also, I think Portriat will work better in the sense that the perch seems to be coming from nowhere...should be from ground?

Thanks for sharing!

Regards,
tltan

[tchuanye]

Composition wise, #2 is the best

Nicely balanced, and feels that it has the 'right' proportion. #1 BG is too big. #3 is ok but prefer side or a front shot.

[wong1979]

Thks for the comments, much appreciated. Guess only no.2 works. No.3 is indeed boring, dunno why I post this angled shot.

Personally, I like the 1st one. It looked good thru the viewfinder as a landscape pic when I zoomed out. And so I tried to be arty farty by infusing landscape into macro Guess it doesn't work. Perhaps if the purple flowers are not so eye-catching, would be better? As for portrait orientation, I tried, but not so good, as the stem is too slanted and far away from the butt.

[tchuanye]

Originally Posted by wong1979 Thks for the comments, much appreciated. Guess only no.2 works. No.3 is indeed boring, dunno why I post this angled shot. Personally, I like the 1st one. It looked good thru the viewfinder as a landscape pic when I zoomed out. And so I tried to be arty farty by infusing landscape into macro Guess it doesn't work. Perhaps if the purple flowers are not so eye-catching, would be better? As for portrait orientation, I tried, but not so good, as the stem is too slanted and far away from the butt.

Hey don't make it sound so bad....#3 is not boring....its a technically well taken shot, just that the compo don't work for me....may work for others.

#1, could be the purple flowers, or could be the proportions. How abt a vertical portrait of the above pic, crop from right to left till slightly more than the wing, w/o touching the next purple flower....and remove your signature....and see how it looks...

[Outlook]

#2 is nice. #1 and #3 are bit odd to me.

[wong1979]

As advised, I've re-composed the 1st pic and smudge away the purple flower near the left frame. Also added some other close-ups, but unfortunately, suffered from wrong focussing and handshake.







A similar posture to pic.2 but I find the attennae look better.


Thks for viewing and ur inputs ...

[Garion]

#2 works the best here. For #1, Background is wayyy too distracting and clashes with the subject i.e the butterfly. #3 - something just not right abt the composition, can't put my finger on it though, perhaps a rotate image 90 degree clockwise might work?

[wong1979]

Originally Posted by Garion #2 works the best here. For #1, Background is wayyy too distracting and clashes with the subject i.e the butterfly. #3 - something just not right abt the composition, can't put my finger on it though, perhaps a rotate image 90 degree clockwise might work?

Thks for the input, perhaps pic no.3 looks unsettling in a sense that the butt is falling off? Anyway, I give up on that pic already

[tchuanye]

Hope you don't mind me editing your pic. What I meant was this:



Pardon me for the quick job...had to roughly clone your signature away. Personally feel its more balanced.

[mindtheshark]

I like #2.

Regards,
Edward Ng

[wong1979]

Originally Posted by tchuanye Hope you don't mind me editing your pic. What I meant was this: Pardon me for the quick job...had to roughly clone your signature away. Personally feel its more balanced.

Thks for taking the effort to illustrate your point. I was thinking of 3:2 crop which is a bit rigid of me. I see u use a 4:3 crop for more width and place the (head and the flower), at the focal point of a pic, which is about 1/3 center of the frame. Am I right to say this? It does look more balanced as our eyes are naturally drawn to that section of a picture. Unfortunately, the stem is slanted away. If it can lead to the bottom would be good

Originally Posted by mindtheshark I like #2. Regards, Edward Ng

Thanks!

Here's an uncropped of the whole scene, perhaps I used too much dof and caused the BG to stand out too much.



PIC INFO: ISO 200 at 1/200s, F10 at 140mm approx 1.5m away