I found a bright yellow daylily in one of the flower beds up at church but it was deep in shade and up against a brick wall. The yellow was so overpowering (think school bus!) that I decided to try something different and ended up converting it to a tritone. I also removed two badly deformed petals and did a small crop to offset the flower.
Canon 40D, EF 70-200mm f/4L
f10 @ 1/200; ISO 100
AWB, Eval Meter, Handheld
Julie - Great toning of this image. I've found it hard to shoot color images of monochrome flowers like the bright yellow daylilys & asiatic lilies due to the overpowering and oversaturation of the single color. You've given me another idea for iamges for these flowers. I also really like the side lighting throwing the shadow of the pistils & stamen onto the petal on the right.
My one idea for future improvement is finding and angle (or a different bud?) so that the one stamen immediately to the right of the pistil has a petal for a background, instead of being lost in the black.
This is image is growing on me and keep liking it more Particularly like the shadows fall on the leave !!! Just the right blend of color !!! Big Congrats !!!
Bruce asked me to add a bit of information about why I chose to do a tritone on this image and, to be honest with you, I really had no conscious choice to do that at the time! I knew the high octane yellow was too much for me so I converted the brightly colored lily to black and white and it looked okay - some people that I asked on my photoblog even preferred it to this version - but the b&w effect seemed a bit "stark" for the lily so I pressed on.
I thought about trying a duotone because I had downloaded a new duotone action from atncentral.com not too long ago and I wanted to try it out. I opened it up and started going through all the different panatone colors that it lets you choose from when creating a duo-, tri-, or quadtone image. I picked a yellow color that was rather pale but it still seemed to need something else to give it a bit of depth so I then chose to make it a tritone and added a very soft greenish-yellow tint and that gave me the final product that you see here - although I could have sat there for another hour and played with different color combinations and found a dozen more had I had the time!
Bruce, I'd recommend getting that action if you want to give this a try because it has so many color charts preloaded onto it that you just won't find in the regular PS presets. Go to www.atncentral.com and choose the free download page. From there, go to the section that contains the Black & White Conversion Actions and you'll find the one titled "Duotone Dreams." If you need any help loading it into PS or have any other questions, feel free to message me!
Daylily Tritone
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