Aconites

[John Robinson]

Aconites growing through moss (Thuidium)
D7100
100 ISO
f5
7 stacked images
Did have back ones in focus but decided to leave them out of the sequence.

25th sec
Sigma 50mm macro.
Tripod /remote etc /daylight.
Cheers
JohnR

[Jonathan Ashton]

Beautiful, lovely details might consider 3:4 crop to get the flowers slightly more compliant with ROT. A bit more on top slightly less at the base. Well done this is a belter.

[John Robinson]

Its full frame Jon . Would have to make some for the top.
John

[Diane Miller]

Very nice! I love the detail of the flowers and the soft focus on the BG blends excellently and looks very realistic to me. No issues with the crop from me. But the exposure is low, with the histogram almost all in the left 2/3 and most of it in the left 1/3. Increasing it too much would blow highlights in the delicate yellows, but here's a gentle increase.

As John's software doesn't permit embedded profiles, some browsers and monitor combinations will show the colors incorrectly. To see the colors and histogram correctly, open it in PS, answer the message that there is no profile with the option to Assign sRGB (which it is) and then convert to your working space.

If you answer to assign sRGB but don't convert ti the working space, the colors will look correct but the histogram will be wrong. If you answer don't color manage, both the histogram and the colors will be wrong, and the later way off if you have a wide-gamut (Adobe RGB) monitor.

If you don't get a message about no profile, your settings in Edit > Color Settings need to be changed. See my tutorials in Educational Resources.

[John Robinson]

Hi Diane
Yes I purposely kept it on the lower side to try to get a bit more "guts"into it. I wanted to preserve the goldend feel of the blooms as opposed towards the yellowish which they are not. Yours about sorts it. It really is so subjective as well. I can't alter my workflow with my gear so things will have to carry on as they are.
Thanks for yourinput.
Cheers
John

[Diane Miller]

Understood! Not suggesting you should change anything, but some people will see the image incorrectly. Just trying to inform them.

[John Robinson]

Thanks Diane. I do appreciate what you are doing and you certainly explain things better than I can !!
Heres another for you ! I must stop sending you flowers
John

[Diane Miller]

NO! Don't stop! My husband never looks at my computer...

[Bob Smith]

This image is delicate and beautiful while at the same time having a real chunky power to it---it grabs and holds your attention, taking time to explore it thoroughly--and your decision to keep the BG OOf was spot on .<script type="text/javascript" src="safari-extension://com.ebay.safari.myebaymanager-QYHMMGCMJR/45a0b95c/background/helpers/prefilterHelper.js"></script>