Blue Phlox

[jimknoy]

I took this picture last weekend by the C&O Canal in Maryland. I used a 100mm Macro on a Canon 40D. I have not sharpened this image. I would appreciate your comments.

[John Cooper]

Hi Jim, Unfortunately the image here suffers from poor resolution. You can submit images up to 150KB. look foreward to seeing the repost.

[Ed Vatza]

Jim, I think this image could really benefit from some post-processing. It looks very dull as is. You can brighten it with highlights or add a bit of exposure in camera. Sharpening would help. And there is too much dead space in the upper two-thirds of the image. Work on it a bit and let's see what it looks like.

[Mike Moats]

Hey Jim, its hard to evaluate the image as it has degraded somewhere n the posting process. It looks like it has potential for a nice image. I like the look of the BG, but would suggest maybe bringing up the flowers just a tad.

[jimknoy]

Thanks folks. I will work on it. I was surprised at how it looked on this forum compared to the monitor.

[Fabs Forns]

Hi JIm,
Big welcome to BPN!

I played with your image a bit. Since it has so much negative space at the top, I cropped to a pano to emphasize that feature and make a plus. The ran noise reduction on it 3 times since the resolution was so poor, to try and get the posterization out of the background. Curves to make it lighter.
Nik Color Effex 3.0 Pastel filter at a lower opacity to make it dreamy.
Selective sharpening of the main flower.
Hope you like it!

[jimknoy]

Fabs, that is wonderful. I will try to repeat your steps myself. THANKS