I will be really interested to see what everyone thinks of this image because I did almost everything you could possibly do to it in post-production to get it to this version. The original full color image just wasn't doing it for me because it was past the flower's prime so I started playing around with some new PS actions I had downloaded and popped on one called "Antique." I changed the contrast, levels, curves, cropped almost every side and rotated the canvas 90 degrees CCW.
Canon 40D with a Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
natural light, evaluative metering, handheld.
100 ISO at f4 @ 1/400.
different but nice. i like the focal point and the dof on this. i like the treatment you gave it too. the only thing i could think of is to darken the right top and bottom corner and the lower left corner to match the upper left corner. well done!
I like it Julie I can only add that I would change the light flower part behind the stem Seems out of place Might want to fine tune and give a little texture to the mid left side !!! Love your idea and the treatment worked !!!
Thanks Gentlemen! I didn't even notice that one petal behind the stem..but now I really see it. I think the vignette I added came out a little unbalanced as well so I'll go back and take another look at that as well. Great suggestions!
Past Her Prime
