Theme: Reaching for the Sky

[Christopher Miller]

This is a Jerusalem artichoke flower that I photographed this past summer. The BG was originally high-key; I added a blue gradient and clouds in PS. I also applied a slight orton effect. Any C&C are welcome!

[Michael Zajac]

Nice bright fun image. I like the details in the petals.

[Harshad Barve]

lovely image and nice details , I liked colors very much here
TFS

[Nick Palmieri]

Like it as presented.

[denise ippolito]

Christopher, This is alot of color for you! Reminds me of a summer day. Very nice details and the BG looks great.

[Indranil Sircar]

Great perspective and excellent colors.

[Katherine Enns]

what a nice sunshiny image! I had to ask what all of the bits done to it were, so I might try to do this at home. Love this treatment, and the colors rock!

kat

[Christopher Miller]

Katherine, Here are the steps I used to create this image:
1) I ran the render clouds filter, after first masking out the flower.
2) I added a gradient fill layer running from blue to transparent over the BG and set it to 70% opacity.
3) I added an orton effect which was done by stamping visible, setting the new layer to screen blend mode, stamping visible again and blurring it in gaussian blur(for this image I used about 22 radius), then setting the blur layer to multiply blend mode, and finally reducing the opacity of both the top layers to about 80%.

Thanks everyone for your comments. Much appreciated!

[Mark Fuge]

Nice image and application.

Might add a touch more contrast to the background. But ...

Your image ... your vision.

[Charles Wesley]

Christopher,

This is a very solid image. Really like the colors and BG.
Thanks for sharing...
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Charlie Wesley
St. Augustine Beach, FL

[Katherine Enns]

Thanks for the details on this Christopher. I can hardly wait to try this.

kat

[Christopher Miller]

My pleasure, Katherine! :) Thanks Mark and Charles for your comments.