an Orchid or two....

This is one I took last year pre my move to Canon with a KM 7D. I took this at an orchid show processed it in photoshop.
I was impressed by James Newton's flower (previous post) he did in photoshop, so tried to recreate similar.

Pic 1


Pic 2

Slightly more saturation in the second image.

I hope you like it.

Barry

the second one looks pretty good.

the focus is great..., just an opinion tho....the horizontal pic looks stronger than the other one (usually is the opposite)

good luck
peace...

These are beautiful! Love the dark moody background and the deep satuated reds. Would love to hear about the PS work.

Orchids...

Greetings Husain (and Welcome to OPF), actually, I never gave it much thought, but you are right, the landscape does present a stronger image. Do you think this is because Pic 1 is slightly more desaturated than Pic 2 perhaps? Thanks for your comment...

Shane,

The PS work was quite intricate actually, but basically as follows.

Made a duplicate of the background (so I have two identical copies).
Then desaturated the bottom layer.
Erased most of the image of the second (upper) layer, bar the flower and parts I wanted to keep.
Used the blending option to remove most of the colour from the flower until I reached acceptable level (probably around 50%).
Made a third layer and filled it completely black.
Using the marquee tool, mark out the thickness of border you want to keep, and hit the delete key. In the blending options, check the stroke square at the bottom. The stroke key provides the thin red border inside the black (I chose a colour from the flower to compliment it). Then flatten all layers... if you need more detail, please PM me. Hope you can follow this at least.

Best Regards,
Barry.

Barry Johnston said:

Greetings Husain (and Welcome to OPF), actually, I never gave it much thought, but you are right, the landscape does present a stronger image. Do you think this is because Pic 1 is slightly more desaturated than Pic 2 perhaps? Thanks for your comment...



Best Regards,
Barry.

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i guess so...cuz has more colors.


take care..and keep it up .

Regards
Husain