Daisies after the rain

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The flowers looked so fresh this morning after the rain. I went crazy for daisies.
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Comments welcome.

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1st one i really like SA, well done, sort of looks like blue moon light...but the next 2 have blue & green conflicts for me.

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Very interesting colors Snappy. They are very striking, I am not sure they look "right" but they sure do POP.

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1st one i really like SA, well done, sort of looks like blue moon light...but the next 2 have blue & green conflicts for me.

Hi Humungus,
I turned the temp to very cool when developing the raw files on these. It exaggerates the blue. I didn't intend for them to look like the true color. I was aiming for a more blue look. I did keep the stems and leaves green in the first one. Maybe the second one would look better a little less blue. I'm not sure where the purple came from in the third one, I think it may be the bark chips on the ground, but the flower is exactly that color orange. I wanted to change the color of the leaves because they are a sick yellow green with mottled grey spots. Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment.

[Tim Kirkwood]

These are wonderful Snappy.


Thank you so much for sharing. I cant wait for spring to arrive. I ahve not had my 717 for a spring time shoot out. Hope to get some great flower shots also!


Tim

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Very interesting colors Snappy. They are very striking, I am not sure they look "right" but they sure do POP.

Thanks for the comment. They are not meant to look realistic. I was trying for POP.

I got Photoshop CS for Christmas and I've been trying out the RAW developing feature. I never had that much range before. Just shows what can be done with some sickly yellow green leaves.

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Now that you have such POPin colors it might be fun to play with some of the PS filters, watercolors and such, I bet you could get some really striking images with these.

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Now that you have such POPin colors it might be fun to play with some of the PS filters, watercolors and such, I bet you could get some really striking images with these.

I'll try some of these things. Should be fun. In the meantime here's another daisy. Keep in mind I did not make any selections here. All I did was turn the temp cooler and slide the tint a little to the right, then I slid the shadow dial a little darker. The daisy was always orange and these adjustments didn't seem to change it. It didn't work this well on some other pictures. A few of them just seemed to have the blue there to work with.

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