Maybe a little dark but I was trying to emhasize the flower

[JBW]

[bambleweeney]

Background's just about right and the flower is nicely emphasised. I might just burn in the flower a tiny bit and maybe its leaves but as it stands - success.
Anyway I think much more exposure and the highlights on some of those leaves towards the top of the frame would have burnt out

[JBW]

Background's just about right and the flower is nicely emphasised. I might just burn in the flower a tiny bit and maybe its leaves but as it stands - success.
Anyway I think much more exposure and the highlights on some of those leaves towards the top of the frame would have burnt out

Newbee question what does it mean 'to burn in?'

[DanK]

Newbee question what does it mean 'to burn in?'

it's terminology left over from the darkroom days. If an area in a print was too light, you would add exposure to that area--for example, by holding a piece of cardboard with a hole in it in front of the enlarger lens and waving the open area over the area in the print to be darkened. The opposite, where you lighted an area by waving an obstruction over the area, was called "dodging." The terminology has stuck, even though most people who now use the terms never actually did it.

[JBW]

it's terminology left over from the darkroom days. If an area in a print was too light, you would add exposure to that area--for example, by holding a piece of cardboard with a hole in it in front of the enlarger lens and waving the open area over the area in the print to be darkened. The opposite, where you lighted an area by waving an obstruction over the area, was called "dodging." The terminology has stuck, even though most people who now use the terms never actually did it.

there is little in life more enjoyable than lessening my ignorance, thanks
B.

[ajohnw]

I think that's pretty good Brian. I vibrance adjustment might bring out the plant and flowers more. Also the CH adjustment in LAB as that can be used to alter individual colours.If you open it, custom curve, there are a series of coloured lines indicating the colour that will be changes. So to increase red intensity click on the red line and move the point upwards. Then click on the line either side and raise those as well. A line indicating the colour will appear for each click. Move these points around side to side to hit the red you want to change. The same can be done to the green in the leaves. In this case I reduced it.

Only problem with the shot is that the near parts of the flower are a bit out of focus. I suspect that the camera has focused on the leaves. Another stop slower may have caught the flower sharper even if the camera has focused on the leaves. Rawtherapee has a focus mask button to check that sort of thing for you. It highlights what is in focus. Saves expanding the image to check.

This is just an example really. The changes can be as much as you like or none and not by much in this case.



John
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[ajohnw]

You could also get the same effect as burning by using the lightness slider. There is a fair amount of scope for use of that. And then getting the background as you want with the black slider or moving the lower left of the curve by a tiny amount. It's much easier to do with the slider. The lightness and black slider will inter react.

Can give this sort of thing.



I wonder if you have under exposed?

John
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