Taken during an early morning walk around my village. There are a number of wild meadow areas and I think this is typical image that sumss these up well, the lazy, relaxed atmosphere that is felt by spending some quality time here.
post processing:
1)Duplicated original image layer and applied blur, added a grey overlay with 25% opacity to dull the background, needed to do this for the sepia effect as the background flowers were far to bright and needed less importance.
2)Added 2 adjustment layers for levels and brightness
3)Duplicated original layer to hold the sharpness of the main flower.
4) Ran default sepia action in photoshop.
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I'm a sucker for unusual flower shots, this one is beautiful! The toning works great, and I like that all flowers except the one that draws the eye are photographed from the side and are muted. Very nice work.
Nice image. I don't like seeing all the weird shapes of patches floating around the image. To me it looks like you have done some major damage to the image.
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