Excellent capture! Sharp, clear, clean and very crispy!
By the way, you've doing very well with your new camera, Lynn. I also love wild flowers, but don't know the names of anyone. Great job on your front page!!!
Now that is one gorgeous flower perfectly captured. LOVE IT. The green is such a nice soothing green and the white just pops. Detail is great and the fly is a nice touch (although I'm not much of a bug person). Only one thing I would change and this is really picky, I know, would be to remove that little piece of debris on that one leaf on the right side.
I agree with everything except removing the debris ... hey, that's nature. Love it as it is. This is an absolutely fantastic shot. Beautiful!!!!
Now that is one gorgeous flower perfectly captured. LOVE IT. The green is such a nice soothing green and the white just pops. Detail is great and the fly is a nice touch (although I'm not much of a bug person). Only one thing I would change and this is really picky, I know, would be to remove that little piece of debris on that one leaf on the right side.
in the words of Mick Jagger: "Hey! You! Get offa my flower!" :)
A robber Fly, eh? I guess this must be some sort of surveillance photo then. LOL
Oh sorry - I am in a weird mood tonight. The images is fantastic. Brad's edit makes it even more so - bringing out the detail in that criminal insect. :)
What do you mean ooops it was set to 400? 400 is fine on the 350D/400D.
The tones & levels here look good, as is the sharpness.
The more I looked at this, the more I saw could be done with it:
- to ->
(open each in a new window and switch
between them to see the changes easily)
What I did to it was to make a new layer and select the fly and bring some shadow detail out, then history brush everything back that wasn't the fly. Then made a new layer via copy, used the selective color adjustment, yellow, and added 20% yellow, and erased back all teh leaves to make sure I didn't change their subtle tones. Flattened. Then using the color picker tool (eyedropper), I selected a rather bold yellow (hex#faee2e), and using a soft-edged brush in color burn mode at about 6%, painted over the yellows in the flowers, repeating a few times until it looked plausible without over-saturation. Overlay mode would work as well, and would not alter the base pixels. When done, I flattened and went to selective color adjustments and bumped the whites just a touch.
Haven't encountered Snow on the Mountain before. Great photo.
The flower is so tailored and the fly is very hairy and filigree.
The contrast is really interesting.(I'm a big bug fan anyhow.)
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