Butterfly on a Red Flower

This butterfly on a red flower is an HDR image, 3 exposures merged together in Photomatix. The tricky thing about butterflies is that they sometimes don't hold all that still. When you merge the images, it is easy to end up with a ghosting effect (with those moving wings). The butterfly pictured here did hold still long enough for me to make three exposures (although, I had to try several times), which then were cropped and tweaked slightly for color in AfterShot Pro for the image that you see here. Thanks for stopping by!