Please gimme your thought on how to maximize this beauty

[tegan]

A different approach again to make the background less distracting and more directing the attention of the viewer.

Tegan

[mindforge]

I took one for a couple a minutes... three or four and did this. Now, I usually try and leave the image untouched for the most part. I like to edit without being able to tell what was done if you looked at the image.

In this I blurred the background and darkened it. I pulled the magenta out of the background flower. Then I increased the saturation and just saturated the flower itself.

Now this is really dirty, I can see where I missed on the stem but this was really quick and I didn't want to spend much time on it because I could have spent an hour tweaking it.

[Marko]

Your redo is quite good mindforge especially for just a few minutes of work.

I like your versions of this shot as well tegan, though it's totally different than the original.

[mindforge]

Okay. Last one from me.

Use curves on the magenta channel to make the flower blue but maintain the greens. Then use another curves layer to make luminescent blue parts, I made glowing blue lines on the black veins in the flower with this method... then make a curves layer to brighten the center... darken the area outside the flower. Done... Appx time 5 minutes.

[tegan]

Your redo is quite good mindforge especially for just a few minutes of work.

I like your versions of this shot as well tegan, though it's totally different than the original.

The reason that it is totally different from the original, Marko, is that flower shots are just snapshots, not artistic photos unless there is something present in the photo that displays the photographer's unique style and approach or something that is fresh or a little different from other flower shots. October Popular Photography for example was talking about avoiding cliché shots and cliché shots despite technique also need something MORE to have that illusive visual impact and effectiveness.

Tegan

[mindforge]

Your redo is quite good mindforge especially for just a few minutes of work.

I like your versions of this shot as well tegan, though it's totally different than the original.

I think I am better at post processing than taking pictures. Well, at least I have more experience post processing. You know, I think it is just because I have done it so many times... at work, I tone all the images for the newspaper. While I have to remain ethical in this I still try and mess around sometimes.

It is just repetition and wasting company time on playing with pictures.

[tegan]

Of course, it is also easy to combine one colour effect with a different background effect or fine tune one or the other according to individual taste.
The flourescent purple version might work with this background too.
Mindforge's blue goes better with the black as he has it now.

Tegan

[Marko]

The reason that it is totally different from the original, Marko, is that flower shots are just snapshots, not artistic photos unless there is something present in the photo that displays the photographer's unique style and approach or something that is fresh or a little different from other flower shots. October Popular Photography for example was talking about avoiding cliché shots and cliché shots despite technique also need something MORE to have that illusive visual impact and effectiveness.

Tegan

That's not at all the reason they are different in my opinion. IMO, they are different because they are way overprocessed and overmanipulated. They are still nice, I still like them but they are overprocessed and overmanipulated when compared to the original. Mindforge's edits are much truer to the original and still look like photographs, yours look like 'mixed media'.

[tegan]

That's not at all the reason they are different in my opinion. IMO, they are different because they are way overprocessed and overmanipulated. They are still nice, I still like them but they are overprocessed and overmanipulated when compared to the original. Mindforge's edits are much truer to the original and still look like photographs, yours look like 'mixed media'.

Mmmm..interesting point in a Fine Art Photography forum. My mother won first prize in Canada in the National Association of Photographic Art for a similar looking shot to my edit with a rose. That is from whom, I got the idea. It was done totally in colour slide form 42 years ago. Has the conception of photographic art gone backwards since then?

Tegan

[Marko]

Not sure I want to hijack the rest of thread on this...but you've definitely piqued my curiosity tegan.

If one day you'd be willing or able to post that shot in a new thread I'd truly love to see it.

thx
Marko