A Rose Is A Rose

[Julie Kenward]

I bought four beautiful roses at the grocery store today. This one was the softest red-coral color and it made for a nice first print but then I wanted to see the "bones" of it without all that color. I converted it to a quadtone using black, dark burgandy, green, and orange and this is what I came up with. I added a border taken from one of the tones in the image and did a slight curves adjustment. I actually think I like this better than the original!

[Gus Cobos]

Excellent composition and image Julie...This is really nice. I give you a 10+++. Love the texture and feel on this one...:):cool:

[denise ippolito]

Julie, This is really nice. I like your inclusion of slight color-works really well here. Before you print maybe check left side of rose . Really nice Jules!!!

[Michael Pancier]

great processing on this. reminds me of something from the early days of film ...

[Chris Starbuck]

Jules,
Great job bringing out the shapes and textures; love the toning too! Beautiful simple composition. As Denise noted, there does seem to be something odd on the left edge of the rose.

[Alfred Forns]

This has it all Crop, texture, tone and feel !!! Big Congrats Jules !!!

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Excellent Julie. Love everything about this capture. Al said it best. Comp, tones, colors, it has it all.
Big congrats.