I've gotten away from posting flowers, but wanted to try the soft pastel editing that @paulaw had used in her recent floral posts, and also provided a link to a tutorial. The Chicago Botanic Gardens is having a large orchid exhibition starting February 12th and Andie - @ukandie1 - and I happened on some prep work in the greenhouse. I thought these lent themselves to the softer focus -- something I rarely use. Thanks Paulal! I'll be interested in how you think this came out.
I am still struggling with soft focus on something I am used to seeing crisp with detail. Very pretty colours. Everyone else loves it so it must be just me!! LOL!!
@jgpittenger The orchids did have texture in them. Mmm...something new to figure out how to reduce without having it too soft elsewhere! It's good for me!!
I think it's extremely sophisticated and I really like the soft focus and composition. The colours are very different from what I traditionally think of as pastel so I googled 'pastel colour palette' and these muted colours were all there so the link obviously works :))) I have to say I have several orchids at home and I find it very difficult to find a good angle to do them justice - something you have definitely achieved here Taffy. I also like the texture in the petals.
