Plumeria on Kamaole II beach in Maui...
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Layer with golden color set at 5% opacity
Spot editing to remove sand from the flowers and blurred out boat on horizon
Dodging and Burning
This was absolutely hilarious to watch me shoot... set up flowers, wait for wave... big wave... quick, shoot and move before wave takes out camera! Thankfully... no one else had a camera to document the challenge!
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Fabulous shot, very creative, beautifully exposed, has a great mood/feel, makes me want to be on that beach!! One of my favorites in this challenge. Good luck.
Back for comments. This is a beautiful picture. Very well done. I love the DOF and the background is breathtaking. The hint of mountain combined with the beach. The yellow in the flowers flows nicely with the browns of the beach. 9 from me.
I like that you found sand that was perfectly smooth. Excellent attention to detail! Nice composition mirroring the suggestion of mountains in the background.
6 - Nice scene/concept. Overall (and apologies in advance if wrong) looks 'tilted' and like it needs a nudge rotate up on the left to straighten it. a bit more detail/focus in the petals, as seems to be on the sand just in front of it, as well as (difficult) more control of the whites, make this even better in my opinion.
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