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    Here's a Bee's Jubile Clematis from my garden. I used my Canon EOS- 1D, Sigma 180 HSM f/ 3.5 macro lens and a tripod. My exposure was 1/ 125 sec. @ f/ 8.0 at 200 ISO .

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    Charles, I noticed three things as I first looked at this image:

    1) The whites look a little bit dull in the center of the flower.
    2) The green leaves in the BG kept drawing my attention away from the flower.
    3) I really liked the ROT's positioning on the frame of the image.

    I opened up the image and simply clicked on the "auto" setting for levels and the whites popped right into place. I then did a slight curves adjustment to pop the darks down a bit also.

    I used the LLC to clone out the big leaf directly above it - it took a little time but it seemed to help hold my eye to the flower when it was done. I used an eyedropper set on a shade of gray from the BG to then brush the other small pieces of green out of the BG.

    See what you think. It only took a few minutes to make the changes. Of course, others might like that hint of green behind the flower so disregard if that is the case. I do still think the whites could use a little punch, though.

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    nice image.....Julie has a point about the central area whites, but IMO the additional enhancement
    to the petals adds an unpleasant coarseness. Tone down the speculars and it looks great

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    Jules & Dave,

    I agree with both of you. Jules thanks for helping the whites. Dave I will tone down the speculars. Will post my rework tomorrow. Doing a video today.

    Appreciate the comments...
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    Dave & Jules,

    Here's another version of my Clematis vine. I worked on the speculars and warmed it up a tad.
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    The repost by Charlie gets my vote. It looks very nice. Interesting how bringing out the whites and then toning down the darks made evrything appear sharper. Well done. Dave

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    Hey Charles, great job on the repost, a real improvement. Well done.

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    Charles, Really nice repost. Well done.

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    Thanks Denise it means a lot coming from you...
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