Daisies

This is a 6 image CombineZP merge taken from directly above the flowers. The Nik high key filter was used along with a Fractalius blend. I started off with a different idea for the final image though this ended up being the result.

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I really like this Richard! I love the petal details, and the center colors.

What was your original background?

Richard, Another favorite of mine. The subtle use of fract puts this over the top!! Awesome details and exposure.

I love this one, too! Daisies are so hard to photograph with all those petals going all over the place. I dowloaded the CombineZP just because of your images and hope to have some time to play with it this weekend - although it's looking like our first real weekend of spring weather so I might just be outside! Wheee!!!

One suggestion...and it's not that I don't love this exactly how it is - but you might try moving the saturation slider to the left and desat'ing the blues a bit and see what you think. I love the depth it gives here but wonder about a truer black and white with the centers masked out to keep the colors.

Beautiful!

A heavenly creation, Richard.:S3: It looks like they're floating on clouds. There are a couple of edges on several of the bottom petals and one petal on the upper left daisy that aren't as crisp as the rest of them but that seems like a very minor point for such a beautiful image.

Beautiful Richard - love the details in the petals too!

These flower images of yours are just too good! :S3: Excellent job! I love the light, almost high-key look to this, and awesome details in the petals.

The lighting is unbelievable, Richard. You gotta bottle some of that!!!! :5
Beautiful!

Thanks everyone. :S3:

Andrew and Christopher -- The details in the flower petals are accented by the fractalius lines created by Sketch B W 02.

Cheryl F. -- The original background was a white pillowcase, the shadows being caused by slight wrinkles and side lighting.

Julie -- thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try.

When you get CombineZP, an easy first go would be to:

1- Go to the far right icon (next to question mark), click on it and get the standard menu
2- File, New -- choose the images to merge
3- Macro, Align and Balance Used Frames (Quick)
4- Macro, Do Stack

That should give you a good starting point.

Cheryl S. -- good eye. Thanks for pointing out the softer petals. That's not the case in the original merge so the softness crept in during post processing... sloppiness on my part.

Steve -- side lighting from a window with a large white sheet of cardboard to reflect some back from the left.

This is fantastic, Richard! The lighting is perfect. And thanks for the hints for CombineZP. Maybe I'll give it a try :S3:

Richard, Denise told me to take a look at this. It is very special. The depth of color along with the gentle lines add so much interest and dimension to this. She also sent me the link that you provided. I am anxious to give it a try. Thanks.