{"id":1709,"date":"2010-09-01T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T23:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1709"},"modified":"2013-11-10T13:52:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T13:52:33","slug":"pale-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/pale-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Pale Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A few <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2010\/08\/23\/sea-birds\" target=\"_blank\">entries back<\/a> I posted a blurred photo. That one was accidental. Today&#39;s were intended, at least in so much as I was manually focusing through the dense grasses to bring the small blue butterfly (probably a holly blue, but I can&#39;t be certain) into focus. The out of focus foreground softens the whole image, but the simplicity of the final image seems to work. All that has been done in the way of post-processing is a little noise reduction and sharpening, and a small increase in colour saturation.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blue_butterfly_3108104142.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blue_butterfly_3108104145.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blue_butterfly_3108104146.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And if you are curious about a clear shot (much less interesting on this occasion), this last one was taken when the butterfly finally settled in clear space.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blue_butterfly_3108104152.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[992],"tags":[1144],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterfly-insects-2","tag-butterfly","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}