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Spring Beauties

© Beth Spencer

Spring Beauties

Uploaded: April 14, 2014 | Entered: April 28, 2014 04:09:12

Description

Canon 7D, Canon 2.8 IS Macro Lens, 1/320, f/7.1, ISO 400

Exif: F Number: 7.1, Exposure Bias Value: -1.00, ExposureTime: 1/320 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 400, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 100.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 7D

Comments

Kalena Randall April 14, 2014

Beth, these are lovely! I like the sharpness of the flowers against the bokeh background. The color on the flowers stands put very nice.

This photo just makes me smile! #1570036

Susan Williams April 14, 2014

What a nice capture of what appear to be truly wildflowers, Beth. I would suggest a crop off the bottom and left and 6x4, bring the flowers closer to us. You have the clarity and they steal the show anyway. If you can flip horizontally, you could take more off the right where you can afford to lose more, but not all look right flipped. Pretty!! #11023761

Anthony L. Mancuso April 14, 2014

I agree with Kaleena and Susan, Beth. Awesome color and contrast and I think a slightly tighter crop will work well. I also think the image looks a little flat and could use a levels adjustment by moving both sliders till they touch the main body of data.. #11023771

Jeff E Jensen April 14, 2014

Yeah, right, where's the snow? #11023774

Dale Hardin April 14, 2014

Lovely colors and a welcome view after a hard winter. Well done, Beth.

Agree on a crop but not as severe. Try about a 70-80% multiply blend and then mask the flowers using a very large soft brush big enough to cover them. Then use a 5x7 horizontal format crop starting in the upper left.

No matter if you change it or not, you'll still have a lovely image. #11023865

Stephen Shoff April 14, 2014

Beauties, indeed. Nicely done, Beth.

In the crop suggestions, you have a lot of latitude in this image for orientation to both optimize the crop and to create diagonals or c-curves. You can rotate the image in addition to flipping it. #11023891

Peter W. Marks April 15, 2014

So beautiful and so beautifully shot Beth.
What are they? #11023976

Rita K. Connell level-classic April 15, 2014

Don't you just love the first signs of spring. Wonderful capture Beth very nice details. Agree with the suggestions mention #11024005

Beth Spencer April 15, 2014

I have been trying all day to upload pictures and comment and keep getting an error page. Hopefully now they will go through. Peter these are "Spring Beauty" They are one of the first spring wildflowers we see, very small and delicate. However today they are covered in an inch of snow and 28 degrees out! UGH!! I think that is Jeff's fault.
I did some level adjustments, and Dale's suggestions and a couple crops and flips, hopefully I can load them now. #11024028

Michael Kelly level-classic April 16, 2014

Indeed a great shot. I love the "surprise" of the blossoms jumping out of the dark BG. I was going to suggest a WB adjustment, but it looks like you did that in Susan’s suggested edit. The rest are too cool, but I do like the more purple color in the flowers that produces. In CS you can make the WB adjustment selective but I am not sure what you are using. #11024557

Sherran Andersen level-classic April 17, 2014

Beautiful macro... not sure which of the edits I like best but I think I like the purple better too. #11025296

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