Green Moth

[Ptyler22]

I shot these today right outside my front door. I saw it and was like wow, wheres my camera? I ran inside to remember that my batteries were dead, so I got some charge and it was still there. It actually is still there now and these were taken at about 12:00 this afternoon. really cool moth. C&C much apreciated. I saturated the colors a bit as you can see, do you think it is too much color? Thanks. All comments and critisizm are welcome!
I desaturated them a little what do you guys think now?
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[~Stella~]

It's a Luna Moth. I think the color is too much, because they aren't typically that bright in person - more of a pale ghostly blueish green which is gorgeous in its own right.

 

[Ptyler22]

It's a Luna Moth. I think the color is too much, because they aren't typically that bright in person - more of a pale ghostly blueish green which is gorgeous in its own right.

Ya It was pretty bright green but my camera's saturation is aweful so it looked grey, but ya I definatley added too much color. I think the last one is pretty accurate of the real color that it was.

 

[Bifurcator]

What a beautiful creature! If I ever have to be reincarnated as a bug I think that's the one I want to be.

I wonder what he hears through those elaborate antennae?

 

[Ptyler22]

What a beautiful creature! If I ever have to be reincarnated as a bug I think that's the one I want to be.

I wonder what he hears through those elaborate antennae?

Yeah that would be nice to be one of those moths but only for a day, then I might get sick of it

 

[Ptyler22]

I fixed the pictures I think they look bad now too, I'm not sure what to do with them because I want them to look decent because that moth was really cool.

 

[icassell]

Beautiful Luna pix. They're nocturnal, so you got lucky finding him in a place to shoot him. They had a couple here at the butterfly exhibit at the botanical gardens, but they were always sleeping on the ugly screen wall.

I wish you'd taken one head on without your hand and a little closer to the beast.

 

[elemental]

I think 2 is incredible, but I think the most impressive part is the equipment you used. You are definitely using your point-and-shoot to the limits of its capabilities, and deserve that DSLR. Keep up the good work!

 

[Ptyler22]

Beautiful Luna pix. They're nocturnal, so you got lucky finding him in a place to shoot him. They had a couple here at the butterfly exhibit at the botanical gardens, but they were always sleeping on the ugly screen wall.

I wish you'd taken one head on without your hand and a little closer to the beast.

Thanks! I got some more like that without my hand, look out for them tomorow they should be up.

 

[Ptyler22]

These ones are straight off the camera with nothing done to them.
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[mr_baseball_08]

I say put the saturation back on them. It wasn't overwhelming by any means. The color cast, i.e. the shade, really takes a lot of the color out of them.

 

[Ptyler22]

I say put the saturation back on them. It wasn't overwhelming by any means. The color cast, i.e. the shade, really takes a lot of the color out of them.

Ok, so you think I should put them to look like the ones up top or should I put a little more or a little less saturation then those? Thanks

 

[Ptyler22]

How about the background, colorless or with color? Which looks better?

 

[Ptyler22]

I saturated some color and removed some from the background

 

[Rolland]

Nice captures

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The feathery antennae of the male luna moth enable it to detect the pheromones emitted by the female and find his way to the female to mate on a warm summer night.

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