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Post by mick on Aug 15, 2023 17:05:00 GMT
Do I need to lose the bit of red flower at the base of the lowest larva?
Mick
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Post by kate on Aug 15, 2023 17:30:36 GMT
Really depends on where you are posting the picture. Some places could be against any cloning or removals. If it is to a place for identification of beasties, I don't think it matters.
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Post by andy on Aug 15, 2023 17:34:42 GMT
Not for my benefit. Excellent camera craft.
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Post by peterob on Aug 15, 2023 17:45:19 GMT
It doesn't spoil the picture but I'd think it would easy to desaturate it without messing the other colours up.
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Post by mick on Aug 16, 2023 5:57:23 GMT
Thanks folks. If it goes anywhere it will be in a natural history section. They are fairly strict on what can be done but their main premise is that "the essential truth of the scene should be unaltered". I think that toning the red might be OK.
Thanks again
Mick
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Post by Fenris on Aug 16, 2023 8:33:23 GMT
If your photoshop skills are good enough, I'd take the red flower out completely replacing it with the background you already have
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Post by El Sid on Aug 16, 2023 11:20:50 GMT
It's not exactly a deal breaker but I'd say a bit of desaturation and maybe some darkening wouldn't be out of place.
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Post by mick on Aug 19, 2023 9:55:33 GMT
I tried but my P'Shop skills might be worse than the original!! Comments? Mick Attachments:
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Post by zx9 on Aug 19, 2023 11:05:11 GMT
I tried but my P'Shop skills might be worse than the original!! Comments? Mick I think you have done a good job on that. I still have reservations about removing the flower (?) especially if it is a flower belonging to the leaves the caterpillars are enjoying in which case a suitable caption could quite easily negate the removal exercise.
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Post by peterob on Aug 19, 2023 16:52:05 GMT
I tried but my P'Shop skills might be worse than the original!! Comments? Mick Very good on the caterpillar side, traces of red still on the other side of the stem/edge of leaf. |
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Post by mick on Aug 20, 2023 7:56:42 GMT
Thanks again.
For those in the know it's an easy ID - Large White (Cabbage white) on Nasturtium, And yes, it is the food plant and the red are the food plant flowers. The red of the flowers behind the larva were bothering me but , believe it or not, I decided to leave the trace of flowers on the other side for similar reasons to those hinted at by ZX9.
Thanks again.
Mick
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