Cosmos Sensation + redo

Gallery: FloraPosted October 21, 2016207 views7 comments

Lake Junaluska, North Carolina
10/18/2016 – 9:39:21 AM
Canon EOS 7D Tamron 90mm
1/400 sec; f/8; ISO 640
Manual; Spot metering
LR5, PS6, Topaz DeNoise, Topaz Detail, added a small bit of canvas at the bottom, darkened the background to make the flower stand out more

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Bill Fach on October 21, 2016 at 7:54 AM

Barbara: One of your best IMO. Love the color palette and the delicate petal edges. The square crop works wonderfully here. Also really nice plane of focus management at f8. Many thumbs up! devil

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on October 21, 2016 at 2:34 PM

Excellent, Barbara. I like your dof and your decision to not take the bg completely to black but leave just the hint of green. Nicely composed and beautiful focus. I like the few grains of pollen on the petals, but there are two or three little dark spots on them that you could clean up, if you're inclined to do so. They're not a big deal to me either way, but a lot of people do clean up their flower images that way.

devil

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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on October 21, 2016 at 10:25 PM

Here is a redo with the dark spots removed (I think). Thank you!

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on October 22, 2016 at 10:49 AM

Good as is! No nits, just leave it alone and smile! devil

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Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on October 23, 2016 at 8:05 AM

Barbara,

Excellent images and your cloning out of the dark spots work very well. Well done devil

.........................Jim

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Comment posted by Mark James Ford on October 24, 2016 at 10:17 AM

Hi Barbara, the repost is a wonderful portrait - I like that there are subtle structures to be seen in the background very much and the square crop is great - having the tips go to the mid point of the square rather than the flatter petal edges (30 deg. twist) was also a very good decision - like it!

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on October 25, 2016 at 3:06 PM

Hi Barbara crying

Agree with the comments this is very fine work. love it cool

Albert Darmo

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