As I said before the details is one
of the subjects of this photo. In
fact, it is the main subject of the photo; so, I want to draw the viewers’ eyes
towards the flower.
But, what draws a person’s
view? For many years, it was
taught that a person’s eye always goes first to the brightest part of the
image. Recently, some researches
have said that the human eye goes to the portion of an image that the human
brain can most easily recognize.
Next, it goes to the area that is sharpest, has the most contrast and
most colorful.
With this in mind, I next added:
sharpness, contrast, saturation and clarity to the flower using the adjustment
brush. In addition, I warmed-up
the color balance on the flower under the theory that warm tones are moved to
the forefront and cooler tones are moved to the background by the brain.
Hopefully, the picture that I took
is starting to look more like a real photograph.
Enjoy.
Camera settings: Nikon D4, 70-200mm f/2.8 at 90mm, ISO 1600, f/19 at 1/60th
of a second on a tripod.
Post Processing:
Lightroom 4—see above.
WOW. What an improvement. Makes your eye focus on the flower.
ReplyDeleteDebbie
To best understand how much you have made this photo go from a simple picture to a fine art photo, you need to go back and revisit the original shot. Everything that you have done makes has focused the viewer's eyes to the flower and star burst. I must admit that I did not see this picture in what you first posted. Always enjoy your teaching posts.
ReplyDeleteTellie
I like what you have done so far with this pix but I was wondering if you considered cropping down a little more from the top so that you completely eliminate the green leaf at the top right. To me this would add some tension in the photo which I believe would give it greater impact.
ReplyDeleteTyler