Japanese Fan Columbine: Aquilegia flabellata 'Alba'.

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Aquilegia flabellata 'Alba'.

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minniev Loc: MIssissippi

dsturr wrote:

Aquilegia flabellata 'Alba'.

This is a beautiful, well composed flower image of a species I'm unfamiliar with. I like the natural-looking light, the delicate colors, the detail and the blurred background. I always seem to ask for more light, but I am convinced that is just me. I have no trouble seeing the details here, but something in me just always seems to crave light. Thanks for sharing this very appealing close-up.

dsturr

minniev wrote:

This is a beautiful, well composed flower image of a species I'm unfamiliar with. I like the natural-looking light, the delicate colors, the detail and the blurred background. I always seem to ask for more light, but I am convinced that is just me. I have no trouble seeing the details here, but something in me just always seems to crave light. Thanks for sharing this very appealing close-up.

Thanks.
The light was coming through my eastward facing kitchen window.
And a thumbs up to every photo in your Working Folk of Nola post.

Chuck_893 Loc: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

minniev wrote:

This is a beautiful, well composed flower image of a species I'm unfamiliar with. I like the natural-looking light, the delicate colors, the detail and the blurred background. I always seem to ask for more light, but I am convinced that is just me. I have no trouble seeing the details here, but something in me just always seems to crave light. Thanks for sharing this very appealing close-up.

I love the picture! It is exactly as Min says, but I have the same thought: it seems "printed down" to me, i.e. a tad dark. I always say "there is no light like back light," and if I had made it (I also always say that) I'd have raised the value of the brightest petal on the right until juuuuusssst shy of clipping. That does not denigrate the picture, which is fabulous no matter how you present it, just that I wouldn't mind seeing it lighter.

Frank2013 Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.

I think it's a splendid shot as is, although will admit to turning my screen brightness all the way up. Well done. Only thing I find distracting is the lower left portion of the right vertical white blossom, not sure what the white/green spot is.

randomeyes Loc: wilds of b.c. canada

extremely sharp, (everywhere) colorful, very well done. I'm guessing here, but somewhere around 50+ layers?

dsturr

randomeyes wrote:

extremely sharp, (everywhere) colorful, very well done. I'm guessing here, but somewhere around 50+ layers?

Thanks.
Around that by the time I'd finished with it.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Stunning details in that big bottom leaf. Love the composition. Beautifully done.

dsturr

Frank2013 wrote:

I think it's a splendid shot as is, although will admit to turning my screen brightness all the way up. Well done. Only thing I find distracting is the lower left portion of the right vertical white blossom, not sure what the white/green spot is.

Thanks Frank.
It looks like an artifact where a tiny hair from the flower meets up with a bright portion of the leaf and ended up somewhat messy in the down sampling. I should have cloned it out.

As for the brightness I'm never sure what it's going to look like on someone else's monitor so if it's going to be off I prefer it to be on the dark side. So either the monitor brightness or an adjustment layer if one wants to. Or modify anything I put on here in anyway that one wants.

dsturr

Chuck_893 wrote:

I love the picture! It is exactly as Min says, but... (show quote)

Thanks.
As I noted to Frank I'd rather hear that it's too dark than that it's washed out, not enough contrast etc. And I'll gladly accept the word "fabulous." And I should have been more explicit: If anyone want's to post alterations (exposure, different backgrounds, B&W version etc.) then go for it.

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Linda From Maine wrote:

Stunning details in that big bottom leaf. Love the composition. Beautifully done.

Thank you very much.

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

This is your rather splendid image with a touch of Ambient Light added in Tiffen DFX which I feel does a much better job of adding natural looking light than any other software package. One may wish to take down the brightness of the petal on the right but I felt overall it benefited from being just a little brighter

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dsturr

Billyspad wrote:

This is your rather splendid image with a touch of Ambient Light added in Tiffen DFX which I feel does a much better job of adding natural looking light than any other software package. One may wish to take down the brightness of the petal on the right but I felt overall it benefited from being just a little brighter

Thanks Billy.
As I said whatever makes it look better on one's monitor and not having to go to the trouble of actually adjusting the monitor. This makes it look over exposed on all three of the monitor's in our household but no doubt some are saying that it's an improvement.

I never did comment on your Iris picture; great composite. Obviously they felt the same at Light Stalking where it was featured as "Photo of the week".

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

dsturr wrote:

Thanks Billy.
As I said whatever makes it look better on one's monitor and not having to go to the trouble of actually adjusting the monitor. This makes it look over exposed on all three of the monitor's in our household but no doubt some are saying that it's an improvement.

I never did comment on your Iris picture; great composite. Obviously they felt the same at Light Stalking where it was featured as "Photo of the week".

Good morning from a rather hot South Seas and thank you for the compliment. Sometimes even an old snapper gets a winner. It was not a composite but one image used with a photoshop action to start, with further lines painted in and parts of the original image blended through with layer masks. What I call a Billydoodle but sometimes luck strikes and I get an appealing one.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Pretty.