For C&C -- Magnolia tree flowers...

Izzie, you have done a good job on the No 2 edit but I'm not a fan of No 3 edit. For me it's just too centralised and 'cliche' and it's also lost the warmth of the original one.

Grahame

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Originally Posted by Stagecoach

Izzie, you have done a good job on the No 2 edit but I'm not a fan of No 3 edit. For me it's just too centralised and 'cliche' and it's also lost the warmth of the original one.

Grahame

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I feel the same way about the edit...Thank you so much in helping guide me through this...'appreciate it very much.

Izzie, I love flowers and have made numerous attempts on my roses but
never on the magnolia. I appreciate your post and I will bookmark it for when mine comes into bloom.
I like the simplicity of # 3 the colors are very similar to mine. Well done.

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Originally Posted by ied

Izzie, I love flowers and have made numerous attempts on my roses but
never on the magnolia. I appreciate your post and I will bookmark it for when mine comes into bloom.
I like the simplicity of # 3 the colors are very similar to mine. Well done.

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Thanks Irene...I appreciate your comment and hope the lessons here that I got will be useful to you too. I will upload some roses for you and Alan (AlwaysonAuto.)

I've had a quick edit with the magnolia close up, Izzie, to add in a bit of texture to the blown out spots and slightly tweaked a few other brighter areas. Edited with layers, masks and variations to opacity/colour blend modes of the layers.

http://i62.tinypic.com/a2zv4n.jpg

Nicely done, Geoff...a lot of work you did here to make truly acceptable...I love it...
I was thinking this morning about this magnolia so I went outside to take another shot..I entitled it "thinking of composition" because I was doing some contortionist stance just trying to get the stem at the side of the frame...I still like your edit though...this one barely have any edits at all...

http://i60.tinypic.com/29pqgb9.jpg

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Originally Posted by Geoff F

I've had a quick edit with the magnolia close up, Izzie, to add in a bit of texture to the blown out spots and slightly tweaked a few other brighter areas. Edited with layers, masks and variations to opacity/colour blend modes of the layers.

http://i62.tinypic.com/a2zv4n.jpg

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Once you start to understand editing flowers it does get a lot quicker. Only about 5 minutes on the magnolia. Things like using a selection around a problem to constrain any clone effect to the desired area can save a lot of time.

Your latest bloom has some very good colour.

As a neophyte in the digital age I am not very qualified to critique but i like #2, #1 seems a little busy for my taste but still pretty.:o

Hi Izzie, I like your edits that you did but I really like your last image here. The colouring and the
texture on the petals looks good.

I go for #3 as well. It has the right combination of a well-defined subject with a not-too-intrusive background.

John

Thanks Geoff, I did not try any editing on this last one, just the usual Content Aware removal of the bright sky peering on the left side, and when I saw your hint about cloning a petal to add texture, I did that to my purple rose...I did not think of using a selection to contain it...thanks for the hints. I am practicing on it on every turn I have a break and can go to my computer....

Thank you for your comment and critique, Sherwood -- appreciated it.

Thanks Rita...those are natural colours, no editing involved in the flower at all. I was thinking more of my composition as I should from now on instead of just clicking that shutter...:rolleyes: which I am apt to do most times than not...:D Now you know why I hurt at my side yesterday...It will either be that shot or the tulips and duff!odil I was trying to photograph yesterday afternoon...:p

You are turning out some good flower images here Izzie, I like:)

Thanks, Grahame...flowers are out of my league but I am trying...thanks to you all folks who has helped me so far with my shots...I appreciate your comments. Well received in this household...too...