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Pacific Orange Tip butterfly sipping on white for-get-me-nots
This is my very first photograph shot in raw .... I know that is old hat for most of you , but new for me , so Im a bit excited about it . I am impressed with the shadow and highlight detail in the whites .

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Hi Donna.. Another wonderful macro, great detail, It really is fun playing with a RAW image. I have done it quite a few times .. but not good at it ..
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Else

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That is the main advantage of RAW, being able to retrieve shadow and highlights. Very nice butterfly shot with good detail and nicely composed against the flowers.

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Thank you Else and Barry
I went out just to try some flower shots and this butterfly happened to land in front of me so I shot him ... I chased these around last year and never managed to get one ...There are a lot more of them this year so I am having way better luck .

You are right Barry , I am really seeing a difference in images with a lot of white , as it is so easy to blow out the whites in a jpeg image .

Great capture Donna and well done going Raw! once i started i never looked back, you can get so much more from a raw file when editing, might be a bit more work involved but well worth it.

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Thank you very much Bev ... I'm thinking there is even a little more detail in the tiny things , hope it's not my imagination ... Yes a bit more work ,Luckilly not as much more as I expected ...definately worth while .

Donna,

Great shot, good catch of the butterfly. I really like the way the butterfly is set off so well against the greyish background, it makes a change from the usual green bokeh.

Regards

Thank you very much Darren glad you like the photo , it's nice to get a variety of backgrounds , because as you mentioned , one does end up with a lot of photos with green bokeh bacgrounds over the years ... not that there is anything wrong with them