This week’s field trip was to the newly opened Santa Fe Botanical Gardens where these yellow roses with the unlikely name of “Julia Child” were the stars of the show. I shot this at f/16 to get most of the flower in focus then in post processing added a Gaussian Blur filter and masked out… Continue reading Yellow Rose
Category: Gardens
Sunflower – Nik vs. Topaz Restyle
Here are two versions of the same image. The first one was processed using Nik Color Effex Pro and the second with the new Topaz Restyle software. In the Nik version I used the detail extractor, brilliance/warmth and added a dark vignette. In Topaz I selected one of the many color palettes in the Moody… Continue reading Sunflower – Nik vs. Topaz Restyle
Lilypads
Here’s another one from last month’s trip to the botanic gardens. I really liked the pattern these lillypads made on the koi pond in the Japanese Garden. The fish swimming around and reflected trees made some interesting patterns in the water. I also like the contrast of the red and green leaves. In Nik I… Continue reading Lilypads