sunflower

I like this. Please share a little about how you did it.

Simply unique focus and artistic comp here Pete. Such a usual perspective presented in a most unusual way . You could even crop below the petal tips for a textural take with graphic impact.
Most well conceived and done and makes me smile with surprise and pleasure!

Alice, this is a cut flower, but it was outside on a patio table in the afternoon sun. I used a white diffusor to bounce some light into the shaded side.

I liked the splash of yellow and the graphics in the green parts, but the original photograph was a little to busy. I used a version of the digital Orton processing technique to mystify it. I like the effect it had because it muted detail in the yellow, so it became just a splash of yellow rather than a detailed row of flower petals.

I experiment with different approaches to the digital processing. I believe I did this:
duplicated layer, changed resulting layer to screeen mode, applied "image multiply" to new layer only, switched to background layer and applied gaussian blur to it. I may have applied curves or levels to either or both layers. Finally, I flattened and unsharpmasked. This is a destructive process, so I save it with a different name than the original.

Pete D.

Very nice. A well composed image with wonderful light. Simple and elegant.

Nice work Pete.

Wonderful concept and application of your vision. Exceptional image.

Congrats on the EP Pete...wonderful image

Congrats Pete! This is a nice unique image!!

This is absolutely beautiful Pete. Gorgeous colors and comp. Congrats on the well deserved EP.

Wow, Pete, this is beautiful. I love the chosen DOF and how the flower looks like its lit from within, glowing, as if plugged into an electrical socket nearby. And I don't mean that to sound like your image looks fake or unnatural. You did some wizardry getting this shot. Sure would appreciate some technical data for insight.
Congratulations on a well deserved EP.

Gorgeous