The Grand Opening

[Julie Kenward]

This Gerbera bud was a half day away from being a full bloom when I snapped its portrait. I processed it in Adobe's Camera Raw and added an antique color action at the end.

Canon 40D, EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
f/7.1 @ 1/250th
AWB, Eval Meter, Late day sun

[Alfred Forns]

Very fitting for the half blossom Juli !!! Love the antique color treatment Does set the mood !!!!

[Harold Davis]

awesome, julie!! love the feel. great job with the treatment!

[Michael Pancier]

i'm always partial to white on black. well done. The background bud looks a tad oof. perhaps shooting at higher f-stop.

[Julie Kenward]

Michael, you're right...a higher f/stop would have given me a full DOF on the flower but that wasn't what I was going for. I wanted to draw your attention to the front petals to highlight the part of the flower that still was yet to open. I know it's purely a matter of taste, but I shot a few with a higher DOF and this was the one that fit what I was trying to convey.

Make sense?

[Fabs Forns]

Lovely tints, Julie, I feel it needs a bit more room in the left.

[Julie Kenward]

Yes, Fabs, now that you mention it...I see that, too! Just trying to keep the thing from being dead center - I'll give it a little tweak on my next go-round.

[Gus Cobos]

Nicely done Julie,
Very delicate. Great texture and color rendition...:cool:

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Very smooth Julie. Like the BG on this one also.