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Description
Another one from the botanical garden. Fog/clouds were just clearing and there was some dappled light through the trees on this patch of lilies, but a light breeze was just starting. I held my breath long enough to get a good stack.
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Technical Details
Shadows and Highlights in LR. Into Zerene for a stack. Into PS for denoise and some cleanup. Cropped from the sides.
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Beautiful job on the flower, Diane. I find the abrupt transition from the completely in focus flower to the completely out of focus stem a bit disconcerting, though the leaves are close enough that they don’t bother me.
Thanks, @Dennis_Plank! I hadn’t noticed it but when I did it became one of those can’t-unsee things. Does it work for you darker? I also gave the flower a bit more punch, which I was thinking about when I posted it.
The second version is really stunning. Looks as if lit from within. The color changes in the petals is really something. The forms on lilies like these make me think of (benevolent?) creatures from the deep. Undulating and locomoting in ways we can’t even imagine being terrestrial. Liquid, lively and life affirming. Why am I unable to stop it with the alliteration?
Gorgeous image; the new edit is an improvement, with the brighter flower and darker stem. The OOF leaves don’t concern me at all with this kind of exquisite flower detail…
Thanks, @Kris_Smith, @Ed_Williams, @SandyR-B and @Dennis_Plank! If I can get another cloudy day I’ll head back down there again, but they may be about done by now, along with most of the other things I always go for. The pond is sadly overgrown with some sort of water weed and the water lilies aren’t even worth looking at.
