Color Wheel

[Mark Fuge]

This image is of an Hawaiian flower shot last year. The twist is the use of a Bas Relief filter and Twirl. Just playing with it and thought it came out very interesting.

Enjoy!

[Mark Fuge]

This is the original. FYI.

Presume the similarities are obvious! :D

[denise ippolito]

Mark, Very interesting use of color and the twirl looks great. The image doesn't seem balanced enough to carry a center placement. IMHO . But your vision-your way!!:):D;)

[Dave Mills]

Hi Mark, I like the color and the swirl effect. I might have cropped from the bottom into the lower swirl to eliminate the black and some of the some of the unrelated pieces on the bottom. Subjective of course...

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Mark,
Hard to believe that the OP was from the re-post......very different to say the least. Did you crop?....I'm not sure how swirl works but I would imagine thee was a bit of black up top......just curious. I do like the overal look of this and as I agreed with Dave's assesment on some of the horizontal bottom pieces......so I tried a crop and cloned/patched what remained. I feel that the horizontal pieces took away from the swirl.....so anything that removed those distractions.....including cloning/patching to remove those......would only strengthen the image overall. Let's see what others chime in and let me know what you think.
PS I did try lightening the middle with a levels layer adjustment and a bit of selective colors to the blacks.....you may want to play around with that too!

[Cindy Cone]

Hi Mark. Very interesting twirl, and the colors are great. Thanks for sharing the original. It always amazes me to see the transformation. Roman, I think you make some good points, but I do kind of like the "feet" on the original. I might remove just some of the lines at the bottom.

[Mark Fuge]

Thanks for the viewing and comments. Appreciate it.

I did miss the lines at the bottom... Don't know how, but ... I would also remove the remant one that you left to the right of the bottom swirl, Roman. But thanks for the vision.

Denise, I looked at other placements of the center, but felt that the composition would suffer if I offset it. I like the complete major swirl and that would have to be compromised. But thanks... Each viewer is entitled to a vision... ;)

[Cheryl Slechta]

Mark, an amazing transformation for the OP!

[Mark Fuge]

Revised post to address issues and true vision.

Thanks for viewing.

[denise ippolito]

Nice clean-up job.