The Colour of Summer (in Spring)

[Runmonty]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51024328108_d8a79da6fd_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2kJR25Y)The colour of summer (in spring) (https://flic.kr/p/2kJR25Y) by Dwayne (https://www.flickr.com/photos/56001877@N04/), on Flickr

[Marko]

I like the comp, but the colors look wonky which is unusual for your images.
That central sunflower in the 'trinity' - looks over-processed somehow...

[Runmonty]

Thanks for the honest feedback Marko. I really do appreciate that.

This one really fell over didn't it. I also got the seasons wrong. It is Autumn not Spring :headslap:.

There wasnt a lot of processing done to this.

Re the colour. I wonder if I dropped the highlights too much?

Since last year, one thing I am doing differently is to develop in Lightroom starting with "camera standard" profile as opposed to the default "adobe color". Normally, I have found I like the colour better and cut down on the amount of processing

The middle flower does look over processed, probably do to sharpening??

Here it the original file SOOC

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[Marko]

Ok - Big difference in seasons - and yet ya called it the Colour of Summer - lol!
the white is loss of colour...death...? that's why they are so pale?
If you didn't do much PP wise - did it look this way to your eye?