Taken at International Friendship Gardens in Michigan City. The gardens are maintained by volunteers and they are trying to get the gardens back to their state from years ago. There are different sections representing different countries, but the flowers are the same throughout. I stood on my daughter's wagon to get this while my wife pulled a distracting flower off to the side.
convert from raw
hue/sat
create layer, add blur, change mode to multiply
sharpen background layer
levels
curves
B&W
dodge/burn petals
heal a few imperfections in flower
resize
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Excellent! I love to take pics of flowers and turn them b/w. It brings out all the texture in the flower that you normally don't really see because the color kind of obscures it...
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