Three tulips. Almost kinda sorta stacked like a triangle.
For Panos and others, here's the editing steps:
I was working on this at the last minute so it did not really get to the point where I wanted it to be. I was thinking of some kind of old textured look when I was doing this.
Here's the original
Convert from RAW
Then the following adjustment layers
Brightness Contrast (I like contrasty pictures)
HSL to mute some of the contrast
Levels to brighten the whites
Color Balance till I got the color to separate from the white more.
Then I flattened, and resized the image.
Played with brightness contrast one more time (that's where the "blown out" look comes from).
Then the final look is really owed to Unsharp Mask (done on the background layer). I cannot look it up but I know that I used larger Radius (to enhance the details) and threshold to soften the edges.
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I'm not usually a purple/pink lover, but something about this photo compels me to look at it again and again. I like the contrasty look. It just fits the tulips well.
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