Shot at 7:52am in my front yard, which faces east, so it was getting the morning sun, about 2 hours and 20 minutes after sunrise. I was shooting the flowers on my Magnolia tree, when this little creature happened along. I also like the lighting on the base of the flower.
In PS CS2:
crop
resize
levels (select white point on flower)
shadow/highlight (30,60,30,30,90,30)
burned some highlights on the flower
Neat Image
USM (85,1,4)
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OK, it's our buddy the magnolia again. You can see how the composition changed your score. This is nicely off centered and the petals don't look quite so mangled in the center.
If you used a flash on this, I think I can see a slight blue cast to the picture. The reds of the morning sun are nice though and you chose a good time of the day to shoot. The background is nicely blurred although I would have tried to do something about the horizontal line to the left. It distracts and doesn't help the feel of the picture at all. Either remove whatever it was in composition, or clone it out in processing.
You did nicely to keep the bright petal from blowing completely. The little fly is a nice secondary subject as well.
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