Posted by danthro (Suburbia, United States) on 15 February 2008 in Plants & Nature and Portfolio.
larger version can be seen here. and the original here (would love any shooting or processing suggestions--though that goes for all my other shots too)
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OMG. the light on this pic is top-notch. very well done!
15 Feb 2008 2:13am
Nice work!
15 Feb 2008 2:54am
Looks like the flowers have some lights inside...Beautiful.
15 Feb 2008 4:53am
Beautiful. The saturated color really makes the shot come to life. Good focus, as well.
15 Feb 2008 6:06am
This is great! I looked at your original photo and I think you did a great job with this version. It is much richer, jumps out at you and yet looks untouched. Wonderful!
15 Feb 2008 6:17am
@martie: thank you! sometimes i feel like i need to compensate for my point and shoot with photoshop to make it look like an untouched dslr ;) but i'm trying to overcome that urge in the interest of saving time.
Wow! I think this is wonderful, the pp has worked brilliantly. It really brings these little Periwinkles to life.
15 Feb 2008 7:30am
@MaryB: Thanks a lot! And thanks for letting me know what the flowers are called -- I'm really bad at flower names. I changed the title to include that information.
You did a great job with this -- the flowers 'pop' and I like the dappled light on the greenry.
15 Feb 2008 9:03am
so simple and the focus is just soft enough...don't change anything.
15 Feb 2008 10:36am
very beautiful
15 Feb 2008 12:31pm
It looks almost ultra violet. I like the subtle edge darkening.
15 Feb 2008 12:33pm
I always love seeing these delicate flowers. Your color is excellent. Such deep, rich tones.
15 Feb 2008 1:25pm
Very good exposure and lovely colors. Nice image!
15 Feb 2008 1:51pm
Beautiful! I cannot wait for these to start blooming! They are like a beautiful green and purple carpet.
15 Feb 2008 1:53pm
really fresh image! The flowers look great!
15 Feb 2008 2:10pm
beautiful!
15 Feb 2008 2:13pm
Beautiful light. Very well done
15 Feb 2008 3:28pm
wow. love this. great colours　and contrast. like the softness to the scene.
15 Feb 2008 3:56pm
Very nice composition. The flowers look like being lit from inside
15 Feb 2008 4:28pm
very beautifull and delicated flowers, the give nice tones.
16 Feb 2008 4:39pm
Beautiful shot!! makes me want to have spring come faster!
17 Feb 2008 6:13pm
nice to see the before and after shots - I like the way you sharpened and saturated the subject without overdoing it. did you use photoshop or picassa? (still slow to get my pp feet wet...)
21 Feb 2008 7:16pm
@baobab: thanks baobab. this one was definitely a time consuming photoshop processing. couldn't have controlled the color that much in picasa, and more importantly, couldn't have processed the leaves differently from the flowers.
picasa can do a lot though, like today's shot was all in picasa except for very slight vignetting i added in photoshop -- i think i have only two shots where i did the black and white conversion in photoshop, the rest were in picasa and i got positive comments about the (totally picasa automated) conversion in a number of them.
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