My Love/Hate Affair With Cone Flowers Continues...
One of these days...I will actually get an image of a cone flower that does justice to what I see in the flower...in the meantime, I'll keep plugging away.180mm lens, f/8@1/50. After some basic adjustments to the RAW image in LR, layers of NIK's Tonal Contrast, Topaz->Detail and Fractalius were applied, all with varying degrees of opacity.
Hmm...the center of one of the BG flowers bothered me...the large, dark OOF area in the ULC of the image...don't know why I didn't see this originally...then again...it may have just been me.
Very striking image.
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Difficult flowers to photograph for sure, John. I like your use of fract and the vibrant colors. I think if it were mine, I might crop a bit tighter, to focus attention more on the center of the flower.
Thank you for the comments...Maureen, still working with the crop...and a crop/change of angle....this is one...
And this is the other. I also toned these down just a smidge....
Last edited by John Storjohann; 07-13-2012 at 02:20 PM.
John, I think I like the 2nd post the best - I like the added room at top because it looks like smoke rising from the center like one of Steve Adkins smoke imagesI think I'd prefer a crop from the left to eliminate most of the outer oof petal but I'm not sure - this is a tough one to figure out.
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I like where you are going with these images. Fractilus causes the upper petals to seem to merge with the nearby flowers, which I find pleasing. Hence, I would not crop from the top nor left. If I were to crop, I'd do it from the bottom and right. I think I'd like the lower petals to be less sharp, so as to be more like the upper ones. I used the smudge tool in Elements 10 to blur them a bit. I hope you keep working on these lovely flowers.
John, I am going to go with the OP or Anita's crop. I like the flow of the image better for those two crops. Nice work with the filtering.
Might be back to the drawing board with this one......thank you for the comments and suggestions!
Hi John, I go with frame 6...the less distractions the better
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