Yellow Bedwetter
Well, that got your attention, didn’t it? Yellow Bedwetter. I’m a sarcastic guy. I can’t help it, really. Every time the Pearl Jam song, “Yellow Ledbetter” is played (and it’s played frequently) in my house, I always say “yellow bed wetter” just to get a reaction from my 40-something wife and 16-something daughter. I get the same reaction every time. It’s that fake laugh. You know, the one you get when you have totally out played a joke. So, where am I going with this? No where really.
Here, I added quite a bit of vignette to the shot. That made the butterfly kinda pop with light. This is pretty easy to do in Aperture 3. I didn’t mess with the color too much. Pretty much what I saw is what you get.
Except, these shots of this yellow butterfly on a yellow flower with not very contrasting shades of yellow, somehow work. Kinda like the very first time I said “Yellow Bedwetter”. It kinda worked.
Still some vignette featuring added. And, I bumped up the pink hue, because I noticed the butterfly highlight colors were pink.
So, with these shots, I like the butterfly. And, I like the wild flower he was perched on (except the dang thing didn’t stay perched for too long a time on any given yellow flower). I kept trying to get him to land on a pretty blue flower. Actually, no. There was no blue flower in sight. I just thought he would look better on a blue flower, but there weren’t any.
I didn’t do much editing at all on this shot. I did increase the black point a little.
So, there you have it. What to do with a yellow butterfly on a yellow flower. Improvise. Just like Pearl Jam does every time they perform “Yellow Ledbetter”.
