Backlit grass seed head

[Ken Childs]

I was working on this shot of a backlit dew covered grass seed head in ACR when I started going crazy with the sliders. When I took the 'darks' to -100, I ended up with this.

This seemed too extreme of an edit to post in the macro forum. Fortunately there's the OOTB.

[Dennis Bishop]

Very striking, Ken. Given that OOTB is the only forum I frequent, here, I'm glad this is where you posted it. Backlignting is great stuff, and I particularly like how the stalk gradually disappears.

[John Storjohann]

Ken, in many ways it's very striking...the backlighting, the dew, the subtle rim lighting on the stem...I think I'd tighten the composition, though, by cropping a bit from the top and about 1/5 from the bottom...and a bit from the right. As it is, I think there's just too much black space, and it overwhelms an image that has a lot of potential!

[Jay Sheinfield]

Hey Ken, I like it. Simple and clean. maybe just a tad of brightening of the stem of the stem lines, if it were mine.....but this works for me as is.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Ken, this turned out quite well. I like that we can make out the entire stem. The black background really set this off. Quite striking!

[Mark Fuge]

Neat image and application, Ken.

I was to Sanibel this past week and when the birds decided to stay on the other side of the ponds and otherwise were not photographable, I decided to try this as well. Just started working on the images, so will have to see what develops. Like the concept though.