Breaking the rules of natural history photography !!

This is a Clematis in our garden.

It's the similar to the Clematis bush that I photographed last month, but is about 2 metres away from it and has slightly different shades of purple and the inside bit is different too.

http://365project.org/phil_howcroft/365/2011-05-10

Anyway I decided it was far too similar to the posting shown above, so decided to go photoshop elements crazy. I converted to B/W and then started messing about with the colour channel mixers on the curves screen.

The result......a slightly green tinged monochrome crop of a clematis flower in bright / direct sunlight.

I suppose this breaks all the rules of natural history photography, but I like it and it is an easy fill of a day on the 365 !!

[Juliette Packham]

Like it Phil, love the lighting really helps the tones! great detail too

[Cherrill]

Umm.....there are rules?? lol Intersting result, whatever! :-)

[Sue Wilde]

This is very nice light

[Kerri]

Great light and shadows

[Constance Brinkley]

Creative view of this flower color. I love it when rules are broken and the result is unique and fun to look at.

[Phil Howcroft]

@seattle thanks Constance, I was not too sure about my post processing here !

[Phil Howcroft]

@kerristephens thanks Kerri, the light is true, but my colours are false !!

[Phil Howcroft]

@swilde thanks Sue :), nice light indeed

[Phil Howcroft]

@Cherrill cherrill I've keep looking at this image and I'm not convinced I should have posted it as it is a bit of a filler / easy option / cheat !!

[Phil Howcroft]

@sparkle many thanks Juliette, the textures worked out nice, the tones ...I'm not too sure !!!

[Tashy]

Rules are for breaking. Great results Phil.

[Frances Chaloner]

Neat work for a very creative result the light effect on the left petal is really nice

[Phil Howcroft]

@tashy I'm not convinced I like my own shot Tashy !

[Phil Howcroft]

@whippeteer thanks Frances it was just a bit of messing around in PSE.(photoshop elements)

[Sue Beatty]

lol - I love going crazy with photoshop sometimes too. At first I was thinking it couldn't be a flower - I've seen green flowers but this didn't look quite right. Then I read - photoshop :-) Anything is possible.

[Tashy]

@phil_howcroft Well you should do! lol

[Rona]

I like it too. Nothing wrong with playing around with a photo of nature, especially when you make it clear this is not how you saw it :) I like playing around with apps. One of these days I will get over my fear of photoshop and start using it. I guess I should just take the time to experiment, huh?

[Sarah Horsfall]

Looks like some kind of alien triffid plant now - interesting!