Thought the flowers and the baseball were a good representation of April, especially with a little water on the flowers. Set my wife's Valentine's Day flowers on the kitchen counter; put a tube originally used to hold my daughter's playdough containers into the middle of the flowers to hold the baseball; spritzed the flowers with water; and set a tripod over the top of the flowers to take the shot. In editing, I cropped, brightened and sharpened a bit and modified the hue / sat to bring out the yellow in the flowers. Cloned out a little distracting glare caused by the water on the center of the flowers. I was going to clone out the dirt on my baseball, but thought the scuffs brought some character.
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The lighting here is really harsh and the black background behind the flowers and ball is distracting... perhaps if it were green or blue or a more organic color...
Comes off very flat. I popped this into PSP to see, and found the histogram is flat on the rightmost 1/4. A quick levels adjust really brightened it up and brought out the dewdrops.
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