Single Bluebell

Paul Iddon

My daughter had picked some bluebells on her way home from school today, and they were stood in a (wine!) glass of water on the sink drainer when I got home from work.

I decided to have a go at isolating one stem of the flowers, and in particular the two foremost blooms as it sat in my holder (a small toy watering can). I used only the light in the kitchen and bounced some light into the front two flowers with a small silver reflector.

I further worked on the front two blooms by selecting them and popping them onto a new layer (ALT-J) and then used a high pass filter to try to separate the detail away from the others a little bit.

Then I flattened the layers and repeated the selection and inversed it, then ran a NR on the selected background (even though used ISO 200) and then used a very slight guassian blur to soften those remaining bluebells, and then flattened and saved, and then resized etc for web.


C&C as always allowed.






Exif:

Camera Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Image Date: 2009:04:27 23:34:08
Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 105.0mm
CCD Width: 4.58mm
Exposure Time: 0.077 s (1/13)
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO equiv: 200
Exposure Bias: -1.00
White Balance: Auto
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)





Paul.

MisterMcCruff

Beautiful capture and PP on the flowers but personally I'm not too keen on the murky background - I think a green would be more complementary to the purple of the flowers.

Paul Iddon

Thanks

Paul.