Reaching the Sky
by Elaine

Comment by ursula:
One of them gave up :( Cool take on the subject.

Bud
by Elaine

Comment by jmritz:
Nice job considering your cropping, very nice.

Bud
by Elaine

Comment by MAK:
man! that's a hairy bud.....

Bud
by Elaine

Comment by Tlemetry:
very hairy! The stubble really jump out at you.

Bud
by Elaine

Comment by Bear_Music:
Brad's right about the added yellow, but a quick way to bring more oomph in without all that work is to use the saturation tool in PS and brush it over the flower... Love the detail, bugged by Ursula's leaf, wish for a little more luminosity in general.

Bud
by Elaine

Comment by patio127:
I would like Brad to come to my house and give me lessons on pp ! Very nice detail of this about to open Black-eyed Susan.

Bud
by Elaine

Comment by ursula:
Beautiful detail. I sort of wish you would have moved the leaf at the left out of the way (it's OK to move things around when you make flower pictures). Brad is right, the picture might might benefit from a deeper yellow.

Bud
by Elaine

Comment by annig:
PS see "Floral Day" by snowflakejen!

Bud
by Elaine

Comment by Brad:
Gotta' love the detail in this.
The yellow is just calling out for a deeper tone.
Better yet, just ignore me - I'm just odd.

But if you didn't want to ignore, re-open the edit, rough selection of the yellow petals, selective colors, yellow, adding 30% yellow and 10-15% black, then erasing back the green surrounding areas you didn't want changed with the history tool, then go back into selective adjustments, drop down to the blacks, and add 8-10% black (bottom slider) to add some overall richness & depth. Subtle changes.

- to ->
(Open each in a new window and switch between
them in the task bar to see the changes easily)

Message edited by author 2007-07-03 13:57:23.

Bud
by Elaine

Comment by annig:
what a committed player you are! Gosh! getting up to take pics..that's why I'm always in scramble mode come twilight I guess :) this is nice & reminds me very much of the one someone did yesterday but with strong PP..hmm, I'll have to check. Show us the macro shot when you get it. Nice detail here
~Anni