About the Image(s)

Now that the flower blooming season here is coming to an end, I was out looking for interesting seed pods or dying flowers. I came across this seed pod from a flower species commonly called a chocolate daisy. It's named that because the flower is supposed to have a chocolaty scent. I've included a picture of a flower still in bloom to show how drastically different the seed pod is from the flower.

Taken outdoors using a 100mm macro lens, at f8, ISO 400, 1/200 sec. hand held in natural light on a cloudy day.

In Lightroom Classic I cropped, removed background distractions, masked and darkened the background, masked the seed pod and increased exposure, texture, clarity, and contrast.

In Topaz Studio 2 I layered 3 filters that allowed me to enhance the details in the textures and manipulate the colors.

In Photoshop I added a stroke around the edges choosing a color from the image.

I titled this image Radiance because of how the parts of the seed pod radiated out from the center with the light going darker as it moved towards the background. I hope that came across.