... we had lunch with friends today and enjoyed some time wandering around their very large garden which they, quite properly, call the 'Park'. This maple blossom just begged to be my post for today.
Hi Richard. I am your Get Pushed partner this week. I've reviewed your portfolio and you have an amazing eye when it comes to pretty things. Your flower and nature photos, including Maple Blossom, are really wonderful - crisp, clean focal points, rich and wonderful colors. Beautiful.
Well...my challenge for you is to find and take a shot of the exact opposite. I did see some black and whites earlier this month, but I want you to go further. Find metal. Old gears. Rusted out autos. Something that is completely and 100% man made and take a shot. When you process, I'd like you to process in a high contrast, inky black and white. I want to be able to feel the dirt, grime and cold in the shot.
Have fun. Take your eye, which is highly trained for beauty, and find the shot in something metallic, discarded and grungy. :) Have fun!
@thomastoth Hi again Thomas - well, this is a surprise... not at all the challenge I expected. This will be good fun I think, the only hic is that I live in rural Brittany in dairy farming country surrounded by 20,000 acres of forest. Going to have to do a bit of travelling I think.... or perhaps not!
@laetitiapetrussa@kimkyra Laetitia, Kim - thanks for your comments and interest. This was actually rather straightforward: I knew when I set the shot up what effect I was trying for so I photographed it back lit and exposed for the shadow detail, leaving the background 1.5 stops overexposed. This was followed by fairly standard processing in Lightroom 5: reduce highlights, boost the shadows, set a black and a white point, reduce clarity and saturation and increase vibrance and, finally, apply a curves adjustment to boost mid-range contrast. The last job was then to use a number of adjustment brushes with varying amounts of over-exposure to lighten or remove the distracting background details whilst leaving the wanted foreground intact. Voilà!
I'm not sure how I have missed out on your lovely photos up until now - I really enjoyed look at your project. I have now rectified that and you have a new follower ;)
beautiful. ive never seen maple blossom before, and this year the maple that backs onto our garden is flowering, now ive seen this super lovely pic too. how can I never have noticed maple flowers before! wonderful image. well done
Well...my challenge for you is to find and take a shot of the exact opposite. I did see some black and whites earlier this month, but I want you to go further. Find metal. Old gears. Rusted out autos. Something that is completely and 100% man made and take a shot. When you process, I'd like you to process in a high contrast, inky black and white. I want to be able to feel the dirt, grime and cold in the shot.
Have fun. Take your eye, which is highly trained for beauty, and find the shot in something metallic, discarded and grungy. :) Have fun!
Another fav to add at your collection.