A neighbor gifted me with some beautiful peonies. So, of course, I took them straight to the tiny studio for photographing. I am also breaking in a new computer so it was a good test of whether I have everything working right. Aside from the brushes needing to be reloaded in Photoshop I’m doing well. But I just realized I’m going to have to load Notepad before I can post this to my website. Love the new computer. Hate the hassle of getting things back to normal.
Anyway. I shot this with the Lensbaby Velvet 85. Took it through Nik detail extractor, did some noise reduction, had to brighten one side so used masks on the part that didn’t need it. And I used the spot healing brush to hide some blemishes on the outer petal. Oh, and I cropped in to get rid of an ugly grey background. Overall. I’m pretty pleased with the result.