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 working on the vast array of New Mexicana available at this living history museum but the irises in the front garden were so stunning they stole the show.
In this image I blended two photos shot at f 16 and f2.8 in order to get the flower totally sharp and the background blurred. Then I took it in to Color Efex Pro and added a small amount of detail extraction and a darken/lighten center filter. And that’s all it took to create this lovely flower portrait. I can see it with a purplish texture but I think it looks just fine au natural.