Denise I like your idea of including the OOF flowers around the edges but I think you need a bit more of them. As is, they feel disjointed and only partially included. If you could get half of each flower in the frame then I think you'd have a stronger composition around your main focus branch.
Also, if you put this in to Photoshop and hit "auto" on levels I think you'll be surprised how much lighter and brighter this is. I know you're going for the soft effect but the image is just a tad underexposed.
Here is a repost with your suggestions,Jules the histogram is not showing under exposed it is toward the right but I added some more exposure.
Should I clone or crop the top flowers also?
Last edited by denise ippolito; 04-14-2009 at 07:51 AM.
We all have different opinions, don't we?! I would only take out the flower at lower left corner, leave others in.
I, too, am learning about brightening up an image and not having it underexposed. I was working on that this morning, in fact. Instead of using Auto in Levels, I've been experimenting with using the White Point eyedropper. Select it and click on a white or light area in the image. You get different results depending on where you click. In my work this morning, I found I liked that better than auto, in that it produced a bright image without being so sharply and contrasty bright as with auto. (Although, Jules' version came out nicely, but then she is a pro at PP.)
I like overlapping petals and their beautiful shades of pink!
Cherry Blossom
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