Bougainvillea

Surprise, another high key image. No I have not defected from the dark side. Trying to focus in the dark is straining my eyes so I am having a break from shooting in the dark.

This is actually following a suggestion by Bob Duff on my crabapple post to emulate yet another Harold (Davis) who create high key images by taking many increasing exposures until almost total whiteness and blending them in PS to display the translucency of flowers. I did not actually do this in this image although I did try it. In this image, I selectively increase the exposure in the darker areas in ACR and Viveza 2 and desaturated the image slightly to create almost the same effect as stacking multiple overexposed images. I find the color rendition easy to maintain than using overly exposed images where the color can be very washed out. Stem cloned out in this image.

D90 300mm+TC F32 1/13. Thanks for looking and comments on what you think about this image is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the pointer Bob. You must read widely and seem knowledgeable about many other photog's work