Flower Never to late.

RogerLund

Grew this in my back yard. Taken with my 5D, 100-300 L @ 300 mm. ISO 800, F 5,6.
C&C please. I find that it's hard to hand hold @ 300mm.

jeffmeyers

Good job. Does it seem a bit soft or is that your intention? Is that because it's handheld?

Also, my advice: clone out 1) the little black bug, the one on the left side of the flower; and 2) the diagonal stem on the bottom left. They both distract from the main subject.

RogerLund

Tips on cloning the noise? I shot it at a higher ISO, so when I zoom in and clone, it looks like I make a smooth area where I cloned.

Dogdots

Run your photo through a denoise program or the noise removal in photoshop. I don't know what program you are using for editing. I use imagenomic Noiseware Professional with CS3. I love that software plug-in Its a lifesaver.

I always clone out my things that need to be cloned out before editing. I don't know if that matters or not, but it seems to help me.

If you find it hard to handhold your camera/lens. Use a tripod if you have one. It really helps. Flowers will move even tho you think they are still and if your moving...well it can be a mess sometimes If you don't have a tripod try setting your camera on a short table or bench and set the timmer or if you have a remote use that.

I like the petals on the flower. You have a good start. Since its in your backyard I'm assuming you can retake the photo.

Looking forward to seeing the changes you make

RogerLund

Dogdots wrote:

Run your photo through a denoise program or the noise removal in photoshop. I don't know what program you are using for editing. I use imagenomic Noiseware Professional with CS3. I love that software plug-in Its a lifesaver.

I always clone out my things that need to be cloned out before editing. I don't know if that matters or not, but it seems to help me.

If you find it hard to handhold your camera/lens. Use a tripod if you have one. It really helps. Flowers will move even tho you think they are still and if your moving...well it can be a mess sometimes If you don't have a tripod try setting your camera on a short table or bench and set the timmer or if you have a remote use that.

I like the petals on the flower. You have a good start. Since its in your backyard I'm assuming you can retake the photo.

Looking forward to seeing the changes you make

Recommendations on a Free or Low cost method of reducing noise? I'll play more with the noiseware standalone community edition, but it seems to cause some loss of sharpness.

Any custom scripts for PS?

RogerLund

Updated, did some work on the image.


Thoughts?

Dogdots

RogerLund wrote:

Updated, did some work on the image.


Thoughts?

Looks good Just clean up alittle on the left side where you removed the other stem. Looks like there are parts of it still on the edge. Sometimes those edges are a bugger to clean up.

As for a cheaper noiseware -- I can't help you there. You could always post that question in the Finishing School here on dgrin. I know there are many people out there that could help you. Imagenomic has a free trail download. I don't know how long it lasts and I did read it adds a watermark grid line onto your photo. Thats a bummer. You could download it and play with it to see if you like it. You can find it here. Run this flower through it and post it -- we can see what it does with it. This software is certainly worth saving for. Other members on dgrin told me about it and I was totally surprised at how good it is.

christinamae

What kind of flower is that? It's a beauty. I like the edit.