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Janet Petty · #1 12-24-2006, 03:14 PM

Rose for your painting/enhancement enjoyment.

We had been shooting indoors all day because it was raining. As soon at the sun peeked out, it hit the roses. This was shot at ISO400 at a 1000th of a second and F16. Usually I shoot flowers at F4 or lower. This was an oops. I think it turned out ok.

I'll be interested to see what everyone comes up with.

Merry Christmas. Enjoy.

Janet

lkroll · #2 12-24-2006, 11:21 PM

Well I tried anyway. Had a lot of help with Panos Rainy Day action (free by the way).

Swampy · #3 12-25-2006, 11:50 AM

Janet, That's one beautiful rose shot! Sorry I went and messed it all up by smudging it with the liquify filter and adding a find edges. :-)

Merry Christmas, All!

Janet Petty · #4 12-25-2006, 02:52 PM

I like the icy feel of yours Lyle. Swampy, please don't apologize. I love the look and your style.

Merry Christmas again.

Janet

Kraellin · #5 12-25-2006, 03:51 PM

lovley flower, janet. i'm curious; is that a physical black background or did you put that in with photoshop?

Janet Petty · #6 12-25-2006, 07:17 PM

Craig, a little of both. As I adjusted the curves, there were some areas that went totally black and some that were just way to distractingly white to leave that way. So I darkened them.

A black background is easy to do if you shoot with an f-stop of f-16-22 and use a flash. I've done that several times. This time, I forgot to change the ISO when I went outside. The flower turned out great, the background was mottled.

Does that make sense?

Janet

Steve Conway · #7 12-26-2006, 08:23 AM

A few brush strokes.

Steve

Steve Conway · #8 12-26-2006, 08:46 AM

A few different brush strokes..........

See Palms, I actually worked on this flower twice!

Steve

Kraellin · #9 12-26-2006, 12:10 PM

thanks, janet. i kinda thought it was a bit too perfect for a purely physical background

palms1 · #10 12-27-2006, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve Conway

A few different brush strokes..........

See Palms, I actually worked on this flower twice!

Steve

I have noticed Steve and very nicely done too, and you are ahead of me been a bit slow over the festive period

Happy new year to you and everybody else here at retouch

Janet hope the new year takes notice of your rose's name

Palms

Janet Petty · #11 12-27-2006, 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by palms1

Janet hope the new year takes notice of your rose's name Palms

Thanks for all the the contributions so far. I didn't think it would be such a difficult subject for experimentation and that we would have had a few more posts before now.

Palms, I thought the name was especially appropriate considering that I took the picture in Jerusalem, Israel.

Happy, healthy, safe New Year to everyone.

Janet

palms1 · #12 12-27-2006, 01:13 PM

Well i have caught up a bit and here are my two offerings on the first one i used the art history brush,
the second i used swampys texture mapping technique

Palms

Janet Petty · #13 12-27-2006, 02:43 PM

WOW Palms. You nailed it with number one. Great job.

Janet

CharlesBell · #14 12-27-2006, 02:57 PM

I have been enjoying this thread. Question, why the dark black background?

Why not something greenish?

chillin · #15 12-27-2006, 05:32 PM

A Gouache interpretation using Virtual Painter