Wow...my first ribbon. I am stunned. All I can say is a big "thank you" to the DPC community for being such an incredible learning resource. I can’t begin to tell you how many hours I’ve spent on this site reading and learning from so many wonderful people.
I wish I could say that I hunted high and low for the perfect winter iris, in the wild, on a rainy day. I can’t...it was a rainy day and it was a perfect iris, but I found it at the local supermarket and used a spray bottle to create the water droplets. Fiddling with the temperature and saturation in the Adobe RAW converter was critical to get the blue and yellow just right.
Post-processing details:
* Various adjustments in Adobe RAW converter to bring out blue as much as possible (temp, saturation, etc.)
* Crop
* Levels
* Resize
* Unsharp mask 50, .8, 1
* Save for web
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well done. you should have taken the blue, there are no two ways about it...wel according to me anyway!!! i just love the colour, i can lokk at this pic for hours, again well done and grats on the ribbon!!!
Hey Jay: This is a killer image and one of my favorites in this challenge. The secret of blue is to present it in its most natural state and you have achieved this plus.
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