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[Shadowman]

[Rebel]

I like this John, very unusual shot but well spotted and captured!

[Shadowman]

I like this John, very unusual shot but well spotted and captured!

Matt,

Thanks for commenting.

[IzzieK]

Artistic is what I will say...is this an on-camera setting?

[Shadowman]

Artistic is what I will say...is this an on-camera setting?

Hi Izzie,

No, typical capture and processing. Thanks for commenting.

[wilgk]

A really interesting perspective, well seen and captured.

[Shadowman]

A really interesting perspective, well seen and captured.

Thanks Kay.

[KimC]

Cool shot John -- like the DOF you used.

[Ziggy]

Different but it works John.

Does it need straightened just a bit?

[Shadowman]

Cool shot John -- like the DOF you used.

Thanks Kim.

[Shadowman]

Different but it works John.

Does it need straightened just a bit?

Hi Jim,

Thanks for commenting, I did a bit of straightening but it made the lighthouse off kilter.

[Wandjina]

WOW!!
Well done, John. This is a totally different perspective! I would have taken a photo of an ordinary lighthouse and missed the flowers in the foreground and come up with an ordinary photo of a lighthouse. You have made the flowers the focus of the photo and it comes up really well. It looks good in monochrome. I like that!

[rachel]

Lovely photo!

What colour were the flowers really? Can you put a teeny bit of colour in the flowers and fade out to grey behind them?

[Shadowman]

WOW!!
Well done, John. This is a totally different perspective! I would have taken a photo of an ordinary lighthouse and missed the flowers in the foreground and come up with an ordinary photo of a lighthouse. You have made the flowers the focus of the photo and it comes up really well. It looks good in monochrome. I like that!

Hi Martin,

Thanks for commenting.

[Shadowman]

Lovely photo!

What colour were the flowers really? Can you put a teeny bit of colour in the flowers and fade out to grey behind them?

Hi Rachel,

Thanks for commenting, Are you thinking selective coloring? See colors, I left a bit of the rail to maintain the offset.

[rachel]

They're lovely!

I'm not great with using software, so my first attempt would be a layer mask over one or the other with a gradient to leave the flowers coloured - even if only very slightly, and the rest B/W. I'm sure there are other ways to do it though.

[Shadowman]

Here is a selective coloring version.

[rachel]

I love that!

[JohnRostron]

I think your first, B&W version was better. The monochrome lighthouse looks as if it was just that, a monochrome lighthouse. I could suggest that you fade the saturation in the flowers, but I think that the first version would still be better!

John

[Shadowman]

I think your first, B&W version was better. The monochrome lighthouse looks as if it was just that, a monochrome lighthouse. I could suggest that you fade the saturation in the flowers, but I think that the first version would still be better!

John

Hi John,

Thanks for commenting.