Going to print BIG

[blacknstormy]

Not bugs

[SteveGriffin]

Rel,
beautiful composition in the first one and exposure and lighting are spot on in the 2nd. It is very hard to get such even lighting on white flowers.

Well done

[blacknstormy]

Thank you Steve
The first one - the leaf - I was really pleased with ! Taken this morning with the sun behind, illuminating the veins ...... I think I'll take my first plunge and print on canvas - I think it'll look pretty cool
Rel

[avkomp]

rel, if you are printing big, I would think about cloning the black thingy at lower right.

may look like a big black lump on a big print.

Steve

[blacknstormy]

Steve - consider it fixed

[avkomp]

much better!!

funny that, but my eyes just kept going to that spot.

I am sure it would have ruined an otherwise great print.

Steve

[Zeeke]

Rel.. that leaf shot is brilliant!!! Impressive!!!!!!


Tim

[Slider]

Rel,
beautiful composition in the first one and exposure and lighting are spot on in the 2nd. It is very hard to get such even lighting on white flowers.

Well done

I concur White flowers are a real pain to get right and you done it with that one

[Finch]

Narelle,

This would look nice on canvas and good to see you are experimenting with new stuff.

Love the first one in particular

Cheers

Michael

[blacknstormy]

Thanks for the comments guys
Feel my head swelling
Rel

[Willy wombat]

Well i will add some fuel to your head swell by saying that those shots are top-notch work Rel. Really interesting.

[byrt_001]

woooowww so much detail, very impresive!

did you do any sharpenning in photoshop?

thanks for sharing these amazing shots

christian

[blacknstormy]

Willy & Christian - thanks for the comments

Slight sharpen RAW conversion, and also slight curves adjustment.
That's pretty much it - oh, and cloning out of an offending black spot on the leaf shot

Rel

[byrt_001]

hi rel

thank you for your comment/respond. may i ask how much sharpening do you apply to a raw image? is it the same to apply sharpening in a jpgot tiff image? do you ever apply sharpening in photoshop?

thanks againg

christian

[blacknstormy]

Hey Christian - you get a 'cleaner' sharpening action when you do it on a raw file - or at least that's what I've been told (someone here will correct me). This shot was sharpened by 34% in the raw conversion ...... and that was it bar the curves adjustment in PS. If you oversharpen in PS, you get that lovely halo effect, so use unsharp mask, but only to a point.

Hope this makes sense??????
Rel

[mudder]

The highlight coming through the gap in the leaf in the first image grabs my eye, maybe if that part was cropped off the left hand side??? Terrific color and detail...

The soft pastel colors in the second shot are lovely, great subtle tones in the soft white leaf/petal area...