Monday, July 21, 2008

A Dragonfly Dilemma

I'm undecided. The original photo is shown first.

The second, tweaked in Photoshop by desaturating the dragonfly but keeping the setting sunlight on his wings.


I feel like I am leaning towards the original. What do you think?

6 comments:

Arty Allsorts said...

On the desat one, the background is less intrusive but I like the whole dragonfly on the first one so maybe you could just desat the background and leave the dragonfly in all his glory?

Gorgeous shot either way :)

Sus said...

as I said on the POE forum, I think the edited version removed too much vibrancy and drabs out the critter.

Still cool shot though, to have gotten that close and not have it flutter away.

Judi FitzPatrick said...

Great shot. I love the first one, the second has lost too much color. JMHO.
Peace, Judi

Anonymous said...

Jen, I like the top one best. It really pops out at you. The color and warm light is what makes it special. Good work!

Lauren said...

Gr. That was from me. I don't know why it is anonymous.

rose AKA Walk in the Woods - she/her said...

Both are lovely, but the original has color and a verve that is compromised in the second.