Spring is such a busy time, with so many fun things to do: garden, walk, take photos! More time outdoors, less time at my computer. Hence, my posting less lately.
This little flower grows on long stems, is a native of these parts and reseeds itself freely in my garden.
I added several textures. Basic adjustment layers, including levels and photo filter. High pass filter. Dodge, clone, brush. I'm thinking that the vignette is too strong and doesn't blend in well enough.
Anita, I like this image a lot...I might be tempted to evict the OOF bloom in the ULC of the frame...that large, white, out of focus orb draws my eye to the corner...but that may just be me. Wonderful tone and color...nicely done.
The diagonal is an important part of what is a good composition, so I'd not want to see the out-of-focus bloom in the upper left removed. I do like the image, overall, but it would be even better to subdue the vignette a bit. I very much like pink and green together, but the green in the vignette seems a bit yellow to me.
The diagonal is an important part of what is a good composition, so I'd not want to see the out-of-focus bloom in the upper left removed. I do like the image, overall, but it would be even better to subdue the vignette a bit. I very much like pink and green together, but the green in the vignette seems a bit yellow to me.
I am working on diagonals, so I'm leaving the UL bud in. I might clone a bit of green on it. Subduing the vignette is a good idea. I appreciate your comments.
Anita, I recently found out about the textures of Joel Olives. He sells large sets for reasonable prices, and he has a few smaller sets that can be downloaded at no cost. With the idea of possibly buying some if I liked the free ones, I'd downloaded the freebies a few days ago. It was just a few minutes ago that I took a look at them in Bridge, and one of them seemed like it might work with this fleabane image, so I gave it a try. It's called Quest, and it's in his second volume of free textures. By itself, it has fairly strong pink, green, and burgundy elements, and it looks like it'd overwhelm the flowers. It seemed worth trying, though, so I applied it with the Soft Light blend mode at 45% opacity, rotated it 90 degrees clockwise, flipped it horizontally, and stretched it to fit the image. The result doesn't look remarkably different from your post, but I figured I'd tell you about it in case you hadn't flattened your image and wanted to see what would happen if some of the other layers were modified.
Anita, I recently found out about the textures of Joel Olives. He sells large sets for reasonable prices, and he has a few smaller sets that can be downloaded at no cost. With the idea of possibly buying some if I liked the free ones, I'd downloaded the freebies a few days ago. It was just a few minutes ago that I took a look at them in Bridge, and one of them seemed like it might work with this fleabane image, so I gave it a try. It's called Quest, and it's in his second volume of free textures. By itself, it has fairly strong pink, green, and burgundy elements, and it looks like it'd overwhelm the flowers. It seemed worth trying, though, so I applied it with the Soft Light blend mode at 45% opacity, rotated it 90 degrees clockwise, flipped it horizontally, and stretched it to fit the image. The result doesn't look remarkably different from your post, but I figured I'd tell you about it in case you hadn't flattened your image and wanted to see what would happen if some of the other layers were modified.
Dennis: Thank you so much for letting me know about these free textures and for your work on my image. :-) The change is subtle, but I like it. I've downloaded Joel's free textures and plan on trying them out.-----I just saw Quest. You are right that it looks strong. I'm amazed that it worked. You have opened my eyes to new possibilities.
Last edited by Anita Bower; 04-24-2012 at 04:18 AM.
As Andrew said up here in Canada not much has bloomed yet...I like the image's softness and composition, I might have cloned out a few of the blurry buds but thats my opinion only...well done, Anita
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