will139
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Carpenter Bee's pollinating.
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JSD
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Loads of potential with the nice sharp bees. Two things that stand out to me are: the vertical twig on the right could be cropped away, and the overall exposure could be brought down some. Beyond that I might up the saturation a bit, depending on how it looks with a lower exposure. A little more cropping of the bottom, to bring the bees into prominence might help also. I think you could have very nice photo with some simple tweaking, the two bees together- both sharp- make it.
I second @JSD's post above.
Great moment, great job getting both bees sharp but to my eyes:
- The exposure is too hot by a stop or so. If you bring it down such that the brighter areas aren't so bright you might have to pull up the shadow details a bit to keep the bees well lit. This to me is the biggest issue to resolve.
- I agree the stalk on the right doesn't add to the image
- Hard to say on the crop, I might try what was suggested above or even try a crop where you lose some of the upper parts of the image. Hard to say without trying it.
Great moment, great job getting both bees sharp but to my eyes:
- The exposure is too hot by a stop or so. If you bring it down such that the brighter areas aren't so bright you might have to pull up the shadow details a bit to keep the bees well lit. This to me is the biggest issue to resolve.
- I agree the stalk on the right doesn't add to the image
- Hard to say on the crop, I might try what was suggested above or even try a crop where you lose some of the upper parts of the image. Hard to say without trying it.
Love the bees and mauve flowers. As @DRwyoming indicated above, if you can get the mauve as mauve, the whole image will pop more.
As cropping is subjective, I will go with a square crop to get rid of most of the environment as it distracts more than add to the image.
Do not know if you have the petals top, left but if the whole flowers was, in, again overall improvement. There is enough flower petal at the bottom to do some cerative canvass adding top and cloning or patching the missing petals in. Then a more rectangular crop will work again.
As cropping is subjective, I will go with a square crop to get rid of most of the environment as it distracts more than add to the image.
Do not know if you have the petals top, left but if the whole flowers was, in, again overall improvement. There is enough flower petal at the bottom to do some cerative canvass adding top and cloning or patching the missing petals in. Then a more rectangular crop will work again.