I wanted to make this look like a sunrise, so I left the glare in. Live and learn! :) I will put a version up without the glare in my portfolio. Thanks to all who commented, I really appreciate all your help and time commenting!
This is going in my favorites before 12:05am tonight. I love this shot - it's one of the better backlit shots I've seen - and I love the reflection - it looks like sunset on a lake. Excellent work. 10
This is very lovely. The highligt in front and center does compete for attention with the subject though. Outside of the challenge you can clone that out. However for the challenge the best solution would likely be to crop.
The subject is beautifully backlit...very nice!
i like the idea, but i see jpeg artifacts... i had the same problem with one of my pictures and somebody suggested that i save the file as an uncompressed tiff, edit it like that, and only save the final copy as a jpeg... it really helped a lot!
Dramatic but not sure I like the lighting here and not sure why. I think because of the glare lower center? When I cover that part of the photo it looks better. That glare just seems to comand the eye's attention.
Very creative lighting ... don't see this set up to often. It makes the petals glow. Did you try cropping out a portion of the bottom part to remove the glare for the ligh?. Good luck. Jacko. 8