Friday, January 30, 2009

Maas Nursery - Bird of Paradise

I did photograph a few things on my trip to Maas Nursery last Sunday besides pots. This flower (a bird-of-paradise, right?) was in the temperature controlled greenhouse.

Title: "Bird-of-Paradise"


Camera / Lens: Canon 40D / Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 zoom
Post-processing: Photoshop CS3 > Topaz Adjust plugin "DeNoise" to remove noise > Create new layer and paint with black in overlay mode to replace most of the background with black > Merge Visible to New Layer in Overlay Blending mode to increase contrast and darken the image > Merge Visible to New Layer and blur with gaussian blur at 25% to soften the flower with mask to keep detail sharp on the blue portion of the flower
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 10:35 AM

    Nice! The lighting is great and I love the black background. For me there is just enough detail in the shadows.

    Cindi

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  2. Barry ArmerJanuary 30, 2009 at 11:33 AM

    Thank you Cindi!

    I did an HDR of this but I didn't like it near as much as this individual exposure. Glad you like it!

    Cheers!
    Barry

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  3. Larry J. PatrickJanuary 30, 2009 at 7:41 PM

    Nicely done. I think the Bird of Paradise is one of the most graceful flowers that there is. You have done a really good job capturing the colors and the flower's graceful lines.

    Good work.

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  4. Barry ArmerJanuary 31, 2009 at 8:44 AM

    Thanks Patrick!

    As always I appreciate your comments!

    Cheers!
    Barry

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