Never done a triptych before, so enjoyed the chance to learn how its done. The golden poppy is the state flower of California and, yes, its orange, not gold, despite the name.
Bottom images were taken with my 100mm manual focus macro lens, top one with my 10-17mm fisheye @ 17mm, all handheld. Bottom left was 1/350 @ about f/8, bottom right 1/500 @ about f/11, top 1/750 @ f/9.5. All shot at ISO 200. (The macro isn't automatic EXIF doesn't record f/stops, and I don't stop to write them down)
Levels, brightness, saturation, usm and resize to approx file dimensions. Create new file, drag images in as new layers, free transform to locate, resize to final dimensions, add border and save.
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Post challenge: thanks for the comments and votes. Yep, that's a bee coming in for a landing. Went back and forth over whether to use that shot with the OOF bee or sub another one. I liked the action it gives to the image, and the more I looked the more I liked the OOF treatment.
The speck on the close up in the lower left is actually a bug crawling around on the inside of the flower. Tried to clone him out, but it didn't look right, so I went with it as is. Nature is imperfect, after all.
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amazing capture with the bee coming in at top.. great subject, overall very interesting, my only critique would be the spot on the petal in the lower left shot.. 8
Great set - Love the bee coming in for a landing! Maybe the last image is a tad heavy which makes it stand out from the others and not gel so much with the set.
This has a lot of potential; great color and light, and each frame stands pretty well on its own as well as together compositionally. The bird/bee/flying thing and light-colored stalks behind the poppies are very distracting to me in the top panel, as is the little speck on the upper right in the left-bottom panel.
Lovely set of images, but what is that in the top left of the top photo? Bee? Free fall parachutist in for a nasty surprise? Either way its a shame it is in there as I think it will cost you quite a few points. However as I said before this should not detract from a lovely example of a triptych
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