Flower pics for Photography group (2 large ones)

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[MissHoneychurch]

1. beautiful - both of them

I like the butterfly in the first one and the waterdrops in the second one. How did you get that butterfly standing still? Lucky you!!

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5. I took like 8 shots on the digital

That is the only one that came out ok. I was lucky I got it before my daughter ran after it. The one thing I like more about my regular 35mm is the 300mm lens where I can get shots like this one from far away and not have to chase the damned thing all over the yard waiting for it to land. The shot I wanted was when it was on one of the other rose bushes which is more colorful but it did not turn out :(

Maybe next time.

[superconnected]

2. the butterfly looks added and the rose colors look very

photoshopped.

But hey, what do I know.

I'm an amature. That's just the way it looks to me.

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4. Only thing I did with the photo

was crop it in gimp :)

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7. Update for you:

One of my engineers stopped by my office today shortly after I saw your post. I pulled up my photo and asked him if he thought it was photoshopped. He looked at it a minute and said "Yeah, looks like it might have been" I said it wasn't and explained it was one I took on my digital. Asked him why he thought it was and he talked about the post in the left background being weird (it is a fence post for my picket fence).

But really, never touched it with photoshop (even for a sharpen which I usually do on things). I have tons of pics which never turned out (including a bunch I took today, though some did quite well - see below as an example).

At any rate, no hard feelings on it :)

[superconnected]

8. You just took a pic so good it was hard to believe.

I believe you though :).

Beautiful tigerlilly.

[amazona]

3. that's a good-looking male tiger

It takes a lot of foul language before I can get one to perch just right.

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6. If he would have sat still l could have gotten a shot like the spider ones

I put on
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=280&topic_id=4867&mesg_id=4867

Only way to get a real good shot is if they are dead :)