About the Image(s)

his is another from the cruise back in March of 24. The original was a 3 stop track around 1/200, f11 at ISO 400 with a 24-70 and Sony A9. Did a batch process in Photomatix to save time since there were a bunch. The original flower looked pretty good but the background seemed to alignment errors. So I decided to use an original background and blend the 2 in PS. It has been a while since I tried this which was a little tricky. Required some clean up around the edges with the healing brush and a small crop off the bottom. Then I took it into Color Efex for a straight vignette and tried their blur vignette, which I liked the effect. The corners were still a little lighter than I liked so I also did a std vignette back in PS. Interesting all along, the histogram says there is no blown out highlights, but the tips still seem to be pretty bright.