Laura Duda

Thanks, Redman. Aside from some initial cropping (which I see needs some further attention), I didn’t do anything to this other than upload it. Can I change my settings so it doesn’t give the appearance of being too smooth or overly manipulated?

No ambient lighting or any special settings, simply took advantage of the fact that the shot was there at all. This was in our pasture, and I just happened to be driving by and had my camera with me. Not a planned shot at all.

What setting would you recommend if I ever get a chance to actually try to plan a shot like this again?

I’m sorry, @caimi, but I’m not sure what you mean by burn her in?

Thank you, all. @ceojoephoto – I have Lightroom 4, but must be honest and say that I haven’t done much with it other than add vignetting or presets. Guess I should find a good tutorial. Any suggestions?

Totally an amateur here, but maybe even play around with rotating it a bit so that the butterfly is more on top of the picture if you can do it without making the flower look unnaturally positioned. That might help with the distracting blur to lower right, and/or crop as previously mentioned.