I got a little sidetracked yesterday but I still have plenty of material from the Farmer’s Market to process so look for a few more before I’m done. Just love the colors in this floral display. I did a basic post processing in color efex pro…. Detail extractor, brilliance warmth, darken/lighten center.
Category: Flowers
Day 9 – Faded Daisy
This Daisy has obviously seen better days. I used post processing to emphasize the decay. In Color Efex Pro I used a bleach bypass filter along with some detail extraction. I also gave it a little darken/lighten center treatment on the yellow center. Back in Photoshop I took down the saturation. then I added a… Continue reading Day 9 – Faded Daisy
Day 8 – Calibrachoa
I thought these flowers would lend themselves well with a little texturing and I like the effect. I added three different textures from French Kiss with Gaussian blur added on the colorful ones to create the background using various blending modes. The more textured one I reduced the saturation and did about a 65% opacity… Continue reading Day 8 – Calibrachoa
Day 5 – Hydrangea
Yep, I’m back in the garden. It seems I am going to have to get through helping Mom with Fourth of July preparations before I can get out on a full blown photo shoot. But, in the meantime there is plenty of subject matter in the garden! I did my traditional post processing approach on… Continue reading Day 5 – Hydrangea
Rose center
I’m deep in the moving process now so this is another image from last week’s trip to the rose garden. I’m planning to make up for it with a new 100 days project when I get back to Oregon. I have been debating whether to start a separate blog for that or just post the… Continue reading Rose center
Pi nk Rose
Amidst the chaos of moving I gave myself a morning off to visit the rose gardens this week. Some of the roses were near peak, some past and some still waiting to bloom. I found myself wishing I had gone the day after the generous rains we received a week or so ago. This image… Continue reading Pi nk Rose
Iris
I haven’t shared a flower in awhile and it IS that time of year. I was on Mr. Toad’s wild ride this week with pre-moving chores. But when my artists group headed out to El Rancho de las Golondorinos I had to carve out a few hours to join them. I was expecting to be… Continue reading Iris
Lilac
One of the gifts of photography is that it helps me to see things in a new way. How many of us, when we look at a lilac bush, see the individual blossoms or the tiny buds waiting to burst into bloom? This image was taken with my 100mm macro lens with a canon D250… Continue reading Lilac
White Pansey with texture
Before After Pansies are one of my favorite flowers. While I like to try to fill the frame in my flower images it is a little hard to do with a pansy without losing something important. It seems that adding textured backgrounds to flower images is all the rage these days so I thought I… Continue reading White Pansey with texture
Lily Abstract
In my longing for spring I picked up a bouquet of yellow lilies at the grocery store on Monday. This has turned out to be the gift that keeps on giving as every day there are fresh new blooms and I feel compelled to drag out the camera and tripod once more. This image was… Continue reading Lily Abstract