The common primrose (Primula vulgaris) is noted for being one of the first plants to flower in the Spring. These, of course, are nursery-forced to bloom even earlier, and are in a streetside planter-box downtown.
This composition was chosen for the lighting and the effect of a column of marching flowera receding into the distance, over a hill and around a bend ...
-Handheld, Tv mode
-Cloned a bit to repair one torn petal edge
-RGB Curve
-Crop from left and bottom
-Resize
-USM at 8%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 174KB
You've lost detail in the whites. Adjust your exposure compensation when shooting very light or dark objects. Using levels or shadow/highlights may get some detail back.
Nice composition, but oh, those blown-out whites! IMHO it would have been better to let the leaves and yellow flowers go a bit dark to hold some detail in the whites.
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