This image continues my '08 Free Study theme of low scoring botanicals. The subject is a dead, dried up little flower of some sort. I reverse mounted the 50mm on the 100mm macro. Bounced the flash at full power off of a piece of white foamcore about 1 foot away and camera right.
Shot in RAW: adjusted white balance, exposure, recovery
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No crop!
Acidify action, flattened the results, put that on a new layer above the original, radial gradient mask to tone down the edges.
Dodge, burn, a small clone here and there
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Nice image. The background is a bit of a distraction & th image seems out of focus. Prehaps getting the entire flower would have been better in this situation.
I like the idea here. I enjoy abstract and minimilist images but with an image like this I am really looking to see the point of focus pin sharp and unfortunately this doesn't deliver that. I do like the colours, are the edges added in your post processing or did it look like this when you took it? If I were to suggest any other improvement it would be to try and have the purple in the rule of thirds rather than almost in the centre of the frame.
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