Bruce, I think it's beautiful as is! If I had one little teeny tiny nitpicky thing to say it would be to clone out that one little black spot so the focus of the petals stays on the toning and not on the flaw of the one.
You are really getting creative! Isn't it a blast? :D
Bruce, I think it's beautiful as is! If I had one little teeny tiny nitpicky thing to say it would be to clone out that one little black spot so the focus of the petals stays on the toning and not on the flaw of the one.
You are really getting creative! Isn't it a blast?:D
Yes, cleaning up the black spots will improve this further. I only like to do dust spots in LR, so PS it is. For anyone interested, I do initial work, and a bit of play, in LR, and save the heavy duty work for PS when I can sit at the desk and hook my laptop up to an external (and better) LCD for the quality work (yes, they're both calibrated!). So what I've been posting to BPN so far is LR only, without the final tweaks. I'll have to surprise you all with some actual finished work soon.
BTW, here is my first pass at the color version. Shot at dusk. Julie's lily the other day inspired me to take a relatively flat color image and get some pizzazz out of it in B&W/duotoning, which I think is working better.
Isn't it amazing how beautiful the toned down version is? We often think color is the be all/end all in photography but the toned down images often whisper their beauty while the colored versions tend to shout it.
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