Patrick O’Brien  


Amazonian Lily by Patrick O’Brien

February 2025 - Amazonian Lily

About the Image(s)

Found this unusual flower at Fort Worth TX botanical garden. Thankfully had my Nikon D7100 camera with me! Non-macro 18-200mm Nikkor lens used with available light.

Converted to monochrome, masked and layered the white flower and "pasted" it onto a black background. Simple chiaroscuro procedure to highlight the flower and add drama with white against black.

FYI: My preferred monochrome conversion process uses "Black and White" Adjustment filter in PS or RAW because it can apply various colored filters similar to the lens filters used in the analog era as suggested by Ansel Adams. Big fan of using the red filter for near-black skies and quasi-infrared look.


 

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