Had no idea what to do and not a lot a time due to rehearsals and concerts. SO....Had some red rovers from last week, mums last they're marvelous, and use one, finally of the three I had. Lit the mums with four clamp lamps. I used some black electrical tape to put together the bottom row of bokeh lights and hung the strand with more electrical tape from above the shooting surface. I placed the rest of the lights behind the flowers. I had to hold on to the strand at the bottom to keep it from blocking the flower and essentially shot this with one hand, hand held. I like it but my little lights never seem to do well here so I am not expecting this to do so well.
Post: Convert from raw in PSElements 3.0 with a +0.33 exposure compensation. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. Tried some curves and eh...went without them. Cropped 3 times. Cloned one piece of dust off the green light in the foreground. NeatImage. USM. Resize. USM.
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I love this photo. The lighting, the colors the compositing it is all just perfet! You must tell me how you did the lighting for this shot. This is what photography is all about. you most certainly painted with light! 10!
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