Anaphalis margaritacea - a member of the aster family and a native of the Wisconsin northwoods. American Painted Lady caterpillars eat these and the adults are one of the only butterflies to overwinter up here. This is actually a composite of two photos to get sharpness across all of the flower clusters. The petals are actually bracts and the flower itself is within those in yellow.
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Does the blend look good?
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Handheld on the group tour at Kemp station so I had no time to really do this right, but since I hadn’t noticed this flower before, I had to try.
Lr for initial processing - the usual S-curve and some wb correction, a bit of a crop. Zerene didn’t want to stack these two no matter what I tried so I did it in Photoshop which was also problematic in terms of finding the focus areas, but it did align them so I used a black mask on one layer to blend manually. Topaz Denoise as well.
Lovely little flowers! I love that just one is fully open. The blend looks perfect! Great idea and execution, on the hoof, as it were.
You have such wonderful detail here that I think an alternate version could be to crop from the left (and a little from the bottom) to move the flowers to the center.
Beautiful little wildflowers. I, too wondered about centering the flowers a bit more as @Diane_Miller suggests. Maybe tone down the green leaves just a tad? Even so, a nice composition.
Thanks @linda_mellor, @Diane_Miller & @terryb - thanks for taking a look. Flora is not a super popular category these days for some reason. Ebb and flow. So I’ve put an alternate crop up top and I darkened the luminosity of the greens somewhat. I’d already taken down their saturation and doing more looked odd so I left it alone. Thoughts?
Looking at it, I didn’t really center the flowers at all. I am loath to cut off that leaf on the bottom and so that’s why they stay to the right. Ah well. My own issues.
Nice capture of an often overlooked wildflower. I rotated the image, came in a little closer and added a radial gradient. I think rotating it made the balance is a little better and coming in closer and darkening the background highlights the beauty of the flower.
