Lily of the valley

[John Robinson]

Lily of the valley(Convallaria)
Usual set up
D200
Sigma 50mm macro.
6Stacked iomages in CZM

100 ISO
30th sec @f5
Cropped/curves in paint Shop pro 7
sharpening CZM- high pass filter
Tripod/remote
Cheers
JohnR

[Jonathan Ashton]

Love the colours and setting but it looks grossly over sharpened, it also looks "noisy" - probably the sharpening, there are also some cloning errors bottom left.

[John Robinson]

Well spotted Jon


Posted wrong one again!, Cloned out name in wrong place and re sized for the site in bi cubic- not bi-linear !
Shouldn't be noise at that ISO- even on my gear ! The apparent sharpness on the leaves is the finely pimpled surface that these plants have. Just noticed the middle bit of the main leaf is not sharp anyway.
Cheers
John

[Jonathan Ashton]

Repost better - dust bunny just below centre on the RHS, still have some reservations over sharpening it is looking gritty in places.

[Adhika Lie]

A very nice flower which I have never seen before, John. If it is oversharpened, I only find it troubling on the second leaves from the right side of the frame.

[MiroslavMaric]

Like the light and details. Agree with above comments. RP looks better. I would remove the spot at the right side. TFS.

Cheers,
Miro

[Nancy Bell]

Lily of the Valley is one of my favorite "smelling" flowers and I have not smelled any for a long time! Good comments above. What about a tighter vertical crop on this to give more prominence to the blossoms. The bkgd and large green leaves vie for attention.

[John Robinson]

Good point Nancy.
Will do later
John

[John Robinson]

Hi Nancy
Like this ??