Storm Day Rose

Well, I ventured out to buy a couple of roses to play with today. I got this off-white rose, and thought it turned out pretty cool...suggestions and improvements anyone? This is such a learning process, and I am so excited to be photographing things again!!!

Wow Tracy, your picking this up very quickly, This is lovely and a beautiful rose.
If it were mine I probaly would have left a fraction more on the top, but your choice Tracy.
I bet like me though you already have a heap of different crops. :)

Cheers Jan

Hope you don't mind Tracy but I had to have a play.



Cropped, cloned some damaged petal pieces and Levels before framing and titling.

Just for You.

Nice edit here, well done both.

It was a really lovely piccie anyway, but it is amazing what a bit of editing can do. i would have a job even FINDING a rose like that!

Beatiful rose and shot. Wow Stewart...excellent manipulation!

Tracy great capture, but it needs a boost in contrast. Bring levels in from the whites a bit.

beautiful Tracy you are really getting the hang of this macro lens very quickly, nice rework too Stewart, just given it the wee boost it needed

Tracy said, "I am so excited to be photographing things again!!!"
Share said, "you are really getting the hang of this macro lens very quickly"

I would submit that there is a close tie between the two, eh? Cause and Effect - or - Effect and Cause. Either way, I'm soooooooo happy for you, T.

Bootcoot wrote:

It was a really lovely piccie anyway, but it is amazing what a bit of editing can do. i would have a job even FINDING a rose like that!

I just drove to the grocery store to get some Milk during the blizzard, and saw the roses, so had to get this one.....

Stewart, you did a lovely job with the cleaning up. I love your frame too. Nice job!!! Thanks everyone!

jdog wrote:

Stewart, I love your frame too. Nice job!!!

If he did what I think he did - it's a great trick. He may have added a border (as opposed to a frame.) Then, in PSP he could have ticked the "eyedropper" on one of the hues in the image itself to set the border's color. That gives you a "frame" that matches your image perfectly. I do this all the time (sometimes it takes several attempts to select the very best color, but when it's right, you know it!)

You can add 1-2 borders (any more looks too busy, and distracts from the image.) The additions move outward, btw. I may set mine at 3.0 pixels, 0.5 pixels, and the final one at 5.0 pixels, with the inside white, then black then white. I'll try to put together a set of illustrations as to color combos for examples, if anyone is interested. Kat

You are spot on with the borders Kat.

I used the eye dropper to choose a colour from the surface of the Rose then created a border of 10 pixels around the image.

The Blak one is 2 inches to make it wide enough for the title.