this is a blossom of the same type I posted before as it was popping open. Only this blossom never opened completely. My goal here was to get all of it in focus, that's why the F36. I also like the pollen you can see on the petals where they were pressed against the anthers before opening.
This was also late in the evening, and the background turned out mostly black. I tried taking about the bits of background foliage, but then the blossom looks like it is just floating in midair, not grounded to anything. So here I just darkened the foliage 50-60%.
The image looks sharp right to the farthest part of the flower. Interesting idea, certainly draws and holds the viewer's attention. My personal druthers would be to use a black bg and let it float, partly because the 'bits' that are there now really don't support the main image and tend to distract the viewer. I end up trying to guess what these bits are (smile).
Very photogenic flower. Betcha' Gus is envious (smile again)
Gail
I want to raise a question about the black bg and Cheyl's and Gus' re-posts. I think Cheryl was right - her re-post tends to float, but Gus's doesn't. Atleast that's what I'm seeing. If it is true, why is it true/
Gail
Hi Cheryl and Gail,
In addition to making the background a solid piano black, I cloned out the blemishes in the petals of your flower, burned in the hot spots on the whites, desaturated the white edges to give you a sense of depth and richness, opened up the dark green hue in the center of the flower, sprinkled in a little bit of selective sharpening in the center of the flower and all along the outer edges of the petals where they curl in and out, also kicked up the contrast by 2 degrees and increased saturation by 2 degrees...I hope it made the difference in the look that you had in mind...:cool:
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