Carol Watson, QPSA
May 2023 - PASTEL ROSE
Original
About the Image(s)
The rose was photographed last year at The Alnwick Garden in Northumberland, whilst we were on holiday. It was quite a bright sunny day but fortunately the rose was mostly in shade. The image was taken with an Olympus OM-D E-M5 MkII with a 12-40mm lens at 40mm. Camera was handheld. The camera settings were manual focus, aperture priority, f5.6, 1/400s.
I applied simple image adjustments in ACR and the following processing steps in Photoshop:
Copied the background layer and masked off the flower.
Added a few of my own textures over the background.
Reduced the saturation and slightly changed the hue of the flower.
Lightened the outside of the image and added the frame.
This round’s discussion is now closed!
6 comments posted
I love what you did to this flower!! The background is fabulous and I love how you softened the flower! Thank you for posting it! Posted: 05/01/2023 23:52:58
Would not change a thing. It is gorgeous! Posted: 05/03/2023 18:01:04
Gorgeous!!!
Posted: 05/04/2023 11:37:42
Posted: 05/04/2023 11:37:42
The flower is magnificent and you did a bang up job with the background.!! Posted: 05/05/2023 11:08:21
Love the merging of the background with the petals of the flower.I would have preferred a more sharper center core of the flower. Nice qork Posted: 05/11/2023 20:48:29
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This is just gorgeous. Nothing to suggest. Posted: 05/27/2023 10:56:17