Sea Holly
Nov 19, 2016 19:33:35 #
Nov 19, 2016 19:47:23 #
Another of breathtaking beauty, dsturr. I'm mesmerized by these forms.
Unlike some folks in close-up and macro forums, who stress the technical and documentary, you use your technical expertise to create exquisite art.
Unlike some folks in close-up and macro forums, who stress the technical and documentary, you use your technical expertise to create exquisite art.
Nov 19, 2016 20:22:47 #
dsturr wrote:
Eryngium Giganteum
Hi, DS,
Wonderful image!
...Great positioning to use the diagonal
Also intrigued by the graded blue-gray BG and the light olive green of "the Ghost"...they work surprisingly (to me...) well together.
Dave
Nov 19, 2016 21:53:28 #
Nov 19, 2016 22:03:50 #
Nov 19, 2016 22:26:26 #
Frank2013
Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.
dsturr wrote:
I believe the best one of your works I've seen.Eryngium Giganteum
Nov 20, 2016 00:02:48 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Another of breathtaking beauty, dsturr. I'm mesmerized by these forms.
Unlike some folks in close-up and macro forums, who stress the technical and documentary, you use your technical expertise to create exquisite art.
Unlike some folks in close-up and macro forums, who stress the technical and documentary, you use your technical expertise to create exquisite art.
Thanks for the kind words. I've had this image hanging around unfinished for several months and almost ended up scrapping it.
Nov 20, 2016 00:08:28 #
Uuglypher wrote:
Hi, DS,
Wonderful image!
...Great positioning to use the diagonal
Also intrigued by the graded blue-gray BG and the light olive green of "the Ghost"...they work surprisingly (to me...) well together.
Dave
Wonderful image!
...Great positioning to use the diagonal
Also intrigued by the graded blue-gray BG and the light olive green of "the Ghost"...they work surprisingly (to me...) well together.
Dave
Thanks.
The background was a piece of transparent plastic over a white plastic cutting board. The lighting was from a kitchen window giving a light top and dark bottom. The cutting marks were too strong so I used the two different colors to make a gradient for the background.
Nov 20, 2016 00:16:48 #
pfrancke wrote:
love that milky white look. Super nice crispness and detail.
Thanks.
I bought it from a nursery along with a smaller purplish variety. Several different pictures of that but none were worth posting although I might take another look at one of them.
Nov 20, 2016 00:20:34 #
dsturr wrote:
Eryngium Giganteum
That is a beautiful plant portrait, with marvelous detail, beautifully aligned in an elegant "X" across the frame. Interesting but effective choice of background sets off the delicate colors nicely. Sharp enough to prick your fingers on. Very appealing image, good work.
Nov 20, 2016 00:25:16 #
Nov 20, 2016 00:35:27 #
Frank2013 wrote:
I believe the best one of your works I've seen.
Nice to hear that. It took the most time. By quite bit. As noted above I replaced the background with a gradient which required a near perfect selection. After several failures resulting in a poor selection using different methods (refine edge, Topaz Remask, calculations) I reverted to using the polygonal lasso tool. If there are any white halos (which there weren't) this is one way to get rid of them.
And thanks again for entering my picture in that contest which ended up winning. Also due to your pointing out of halos in this forum. Checking for them is now always part of my work flow.
Nov 20, 2016 00:57:40 #
minniev wrote:
That is a beautiful plant portrait, with marvelous detail, beautifully aligned in an elegant "X" across the frame. Interesting but effective choice of background sets off the delicate colors nicely. Sharp enough to prick your fingers on. Very appealing image, good work.
Thanks. I try to fill up the frame as best I can in the camera and crop later. Randomeyes has offered excellent advice in this forum about cropping. As I noted above the colors are from the backround of the original shot(s) used in a gradient. The sharpness comes from photo stacking, sharpening in camera raw, a light touch of Topaz detail 2 and a final sharpening in camera raw applied as a filter after resizing. Also shot on a tripod, mirror lockup, ISO 100 at f10.
As you once said "I shoot what I find interesting and then think of a message later" or something like that. "Sometimes a picture is just a picture". - Randomeyes. Or, most times in my case.
Nov 20, 2016 01:12:54 #
Frank2013
Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.
dsturr wrote:
Not sure exactly how you did that but in the future consider the pen tool, quite frustrating to learn but once the light comes on.......I reverted to using the polygonal lasso tool.
Nov 20, 2016 01:56:25 #
Frank2013 wrote:
Not sure exactly how you did that but in the future consider the pen tool, quite frustrating to learn but once the light comes on.......
The first graphics program I used was Corel 7, sometime in the early 1990's. I used the pen tool back then but I discovered Photoshop 4 (not CS 4). I haven't used the pen tool much since then although it's probably still the best tool to use if curves have to be selected. The light came on early because it was the best tool to use in Corel. I never figured out how to use the PhotoPaint part of the suite effectively but Photoshop made it all quite simple. Especially layer masks. Those that describe a steep learning curve as difficult probably took very little algebra in high school. The easier the program is to learn the steeper the learning curve; more learning per unit of time. Which is what Photoshop was and still is. In this case with all the more or less straight lines the pen tool didn't come to mind but thanks for reminding me. But I'd probably still have to review it.
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