mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

I'm not quite sure I just have this feeling it needs something or i should have done something different to it to make it really nice. Any ideas or suggestions or is it just junk?

buckwheat Loc: Clarkdale, AZ and Belen NM

It's not junk, but to me it has no center of interest. It could serve really well as a background for another image.

Heirloom Tomato Loc: Oregon

You can massage an image like this to give it a lot more interest and pop. I was going to download it and show an example of what I mean to you, but it didn't want to download as a .jpg file. This photo is definitely not junk. There are several directions you could take this in post processing to make it more interesting, or make it a good pattern shot. What kind of software do you have and what are the kinds of changes you know how to do?

mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

Could you explain what you mean please? Are talking about ...i think its called layers in pp? Should I not have gotten as close maybe? I couldn't move in closer as I don't have a macro lens. Thank you for looking and commenting.

mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

I know very very VERY little about pp I'm able to clone stuff out and use the healing brush on small areas and I just learned about turning a color photo into a grayscale one. I have lightroom and adobe photoshop. I wonder why it won't let you download i checked store original...

Heirloom Tomato Loc: Oregon

I could download a "complete web page" or "HTML" but I don't know how to turn that into something my software will let me use to make an edit. You have the software you need to make edits on this. Can you save your photo as a .jpg file and post it again? If you do, I will download it and show you one or two directions you can take a photo like this, and I will tell you what I do. It is well worth spending the time needed to learn to use your post processing programs. There's a lot to learn but it's also enormous fun.

mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

hmm thats weird i did save as a jpeg one moment i will try again I would love to learn how to do more with this photo with pp I love your onions picture but have no idea how you accomplished that :)

Is this better?

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

My thoughts as well. 8-)

Heirloom Tomato Loc: Oregon

OK, Mariposa. That loaded just fine. I will make some "onion-ized" hydrangeas for you and post it later. :P

Heirloom Tomato Loc: Oregon

Here you go:
First of all, let me stress that this is just one of thousands of possible interpretations of this photo. This is just one treatment I happen to enjoy.
I am using Photoshop Elements 11.
First, I cropped it slightly to eliminate some of the background which I knew would not convert well with the effects I wanted to use.
I Then hit the brightness/contrast auto correct box which brightened it a little.
Then I used the "add saturated slide film effect" to bring out the muted colors a bit more.
Next, I went up the filters drop down menu and chose "comic." There are many sliders available here so you can adjust the number of colors, the width of edge lines, the smoothness, and so on and so forth. You can experiment with those until you like the way your image looks in the preview box. Then click "done."
As a final step, I applied a 50% black vignette. This covered up the remaining bit of background and added an appearance of depth and dimension.

I repeat, there are a lot of things you could do to enhance this kind of image. Get in there and start learning your programs, you will love it. There are plenty of YouTube training videos online. Learn one or two features at a time and pretty soon you'll be making all your images look their best.

New Hydrangea

jteee Loc: Montana

I like the patterns in the photo, and thought they may be better displayed as a BW. I'm not great at this but this is what I came up with.

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

The main problem is, used as a stand alone photograph, it has no discernible focal point to maintain interest, in my opinion.

THE IMPORTANCE OF A FOCAL POINT IN PHOTO COMPOSITIONS
http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/focal-point-in-photo-compositions/

Heirloom Tomato Loc: Oregon

It looks good that way, jteee.

mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

Thank you so much I do like this effect and will try it out I really like how it shows the lines on the one flower i will definitely be playing around with this thank you again.

mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

OH wow Thank you for this suggestion yes it does bring out the patterns well.