Beverly Caine

Study Group 9

Beverly Caine

Priscilla Farrell

Jantina Tuthill

January Image - "Everyone Has to Eat Sometime"

How I did it - I shot this at Butterfly World, here in Coral Springs, Florida where I often go if I have some free time. It was the first time that I was able to get close enough to a flower with a bee actively enjoying his thing. I think it could use some improvement and am open to suggestions.

Comments
*Bill Thwinyarn*	The flower and bee are nice and sharp. I would suggest selecting the flower, inverting the selection, then working on the background to make it less confusing. There are a number of ways to accomplish this in Photoshop.
*Brian Swinyard*	Beverly, you have done well to crop tightly onto the flower which is well exposed with good detail in the shadows and highlights. It is a pity that there are some black halos around the edges of the pink flowers which look like selection artifacts. The bright leaves in the background are a touch distracting and need toning down. You might like to play around with cropping tightly onto the bee and leaving only part of the flower visible which would exclude the background distractions.
*Priscilla Farrell*	*You asked for suggestions....I would tone down the highlights on the petals and work on the background distractions. You have a nice sharp center of interest.*
*John Larson*	*I like the colors and the bee adds interest. The background is too prominent and needs cleaning up.*
*Shaikh Amin*	The only thing I suggest is to remove distraction from the background and leave green leaf on left side as is that leads to your main subject Bee. You will feel the difference after you have done it.
*Jantina Tuthill*	Passion flowers are so gorgeous to photograph and the green versus the red is wonderful. The leaves of the passion flower distract from the green bug. My eye went for the leaves right away and later saw the bug. Perhaps is you make the bug more of a focal point and darken the leaves up front.

Member Biography
	Beverly Caine - I began my interest in photography about 1977 when we were planning a trip to Europe and I threatened my husband, telling him if he fell over another bench while taking pictures I would leave him there. He suggested I take a course. I did, After my first course, I submitted a photo I took in Madeira to a local contest and took first place winning a week in Mexico, and the rest is history. I am a semi-retired travel agent, living in Boynton Beach, FL., and my love of travel offers me many opportunities to enjoy my photography hobby. I also enjoy photographing people and flowers. .