Burning Iris ...

... or Things To Do When The Light Is Harsh

Canon 20D, Tamron 28-300 @ 92mm, 3-stop ND, handheld
ISO 100, 1/3 sec @ f/25, WB=daylight
Shot mid-afternoon on a bright sunny day at the Missouri Botanical Gardens this past May.

ACR: 1-stop exposure increase (oops! forgot to compensate for the pan in-camera), WB set to shade to warm it up a lot, noise reduced
PSCS2: dust cleanup, strong increase in constrast, burned/dodged a bit, bumped up the saturation, USM 100 10 2, then applied a canvas texture and cropped to a pano format to emphasize the flowers

The starting point was to pan vertically (but deliberately in a rather wobbly manner) during a long exposure (thus the 3-stop ND, minimum ISO, and smallest aperture), and then exaggerate the effect in PS.

All comments/critiques welcome!

Chris

Very nice, Crhis, especially the added texture! Keep them coming :)