The Storm has Passed

Stunning post, welcome to the flora gallery, I look forward to seeing more of your work ! Beautiful shot and wonderfully crafted ! The Dof is outstanding as well as the detail.

Great shot. Subject very sharp and detailed in a dreamy BG. I like this a lot.

Stunning... Graet shot Karen. Graet color, nice BG too

Beautiful work Karen, it really stands out against that nice soft BG!

The LP looks fab Karen, techs R right one the money.
Lovely color and great light, I especially like the stem angle that vanishes near the bottom here

Outstanding image, Karen! Just perfect in so many ways! Great subject, colors, DOF choice, background, comp, focus on main flower, fading stem, raindrops. . . can you tell I love this?

I'll echo what everyone else has said. Well done.

I'm amazed you are able to do a stack handheld....what software are you using to combine the images?

beautiful image, love the drops.

Karen:
Welcome to Flora. What a stunning image for your first post in this gallery. Looking forward to seen more.

Simple yet very effective.

Thanks for the comments everyone, and many similar in return. I've been in the background, following all the galleries on NPN for a few months now and have learned so much from each of you!! This is a very positive community

Mark - I used CS6 to do the stack. Funny thing, almost always put the tripod in the car when I go out... but then.... well, maybe one of these days. Because of the variation when hand-holding, I took more than 3 images and used LR to scroll through and choose the ones to merge along with the typical light/contrast/sharp adjustments. Then into CS6, first did File > Automate > Photomerge which corrected for hand-held movement (you could probably do Merge to Panorama from lightroom and get the same results). After the images were merged, selected all layers and used Edit>Auto Blend Layers > Stack Images, then cropped off the rough edges.

Cheers!

beautiful work....great bg

Brigitte

I like harebells, but I still haven't made a photograph as nice as this one. Hand held! How can you take images to stack shooting handheld? The background is nice and the composition is elegant.

Pete D.

Oh, this is sweet! Composition, separation, detail, all great. Superb image in my opinion.
Bob

The lighting, the background & subject are perfect! Excellent choice of DOF for your stack!

Welcome Karen! This is very nice. I like the sharpness of the bloom and the water droplets.

Nathan

Hi Karen Welcome to Flora!!! Great to have you aboard What a fine first presentation! Just the right play of light, and detail on the bloom, to make it stand out against the sublime BG color
Albert Darmo
Canada

Wonderful image, clean, simple comp and beautiful color. The drops are a real treat

Karen: Welcome to the finest Flora gallery on the planet and for a terrific first post. I especially like the color palette, BG and your stack work. Superbly crafted image. Great to have you aboard and looking forward to more. >=))>

Very beautiful, Karen ! The flower is superbly lit against the lovely background, and the stack is perfect

Beautiful shot. Congrats on WP.

Exquisite detail, colours, and lovely BG.
Congrats on the WP - the first of many, I'm betting.
Welcome!
Sandy

Congrats on your WP. Well deserved.

Hi Karen Congrats on a well deserved WP
Albert Darmo

Excellent shot, Excellent DOF, good choice of background