late rose

the last dublin Bay rose covered in dew this morning, I have real trouble photographing red flowers, I discovered I need to slightly underexpose. I used the mixer brush tool on the background (thanks for the idea snapchap). my painting needs work but thats it for now.

[Darren Juden]

Wow - beautifully done :)

[Tina Cook]

Beautiful shot!

[Kate Goring]

Gorgeous colours, lovely shot.

[megan]

Very lush, rich photo of a rose. love the pov.

[GiGi]

U have taken the typicality away and made art....nicely done

[Justin Keppel]

Cool effect

[Corrie]

Beautiful presentation and a cool shot!

[Rohini Gupta]

Superb, the richness of the rose comes out so well.

[Gill W]

Beautiful shot, love the DOF and the green background makes the colours of the rose really stand out!

[Clare]

Great!

[Kathryn Marshall]

Beautiful composition and shot. I have difficulties with red flowers too.

[kali]

@darrenboyj @tinac1 @masosy @mwbc @keppelj @genesis_one @writingdays @gillg @clef50 @daisy thankyou, I wasn't sure about it, need to take more time about painting with the mixer brush than I had patience for last night @gigiz well we can't have that can we, glad you think so

[Pamela]

So beautiful. Thanks for the discussion of how you got this great photo. I have trouble with white flowers - so underexposing could help. I never think of that. I absolutely love the painting idea. How did you do this?

[kali]

@pam1 Pamela if you have photoshop look for the mixer brush tool, you paint with it and it smears the colours that are there, for this i masked the flower so it just picked up the background colours. takes a bit of experimenting to get the right brush and strokes for the job

[Donna]

beautiful focus and I love what you did with the background

[ZambianLass]

This is striking... well done. Red is so hard to photograph but I think you have done this perfectly

[Pamela]

@kali66 Thanks Kali, Yes I have photoshop and am just starting to learn how to do this. I will give it a try.