Floppy Poppy

[Round Tuit]

I caught this poppy just before the petals fell off the flower.



I burned the centre part but I am not sure if I went far enough.

[Round Tuit]

Having taken a more critical second look, I think that the petal could use a slight drop in saturation as well as some localized dodging and burning. Stay tuned for version 2.0!

[DanK]

As long as you are working on it:

Now that I can see it on a good monitor, the saturation doesn't bother me. However, the harsh lighting does. So IMHO burning and dodging might help. HOwever, the very narrow, really bright lines will be tough to deal with (they would be for me, anyway) because they are so bright, so narrow, and so irregular. One idea I had is to select those areas with a luminosity mask, which would automatically feather it appropriately if you create the right mask, and then apply that to to a curves tool for burning, to a duplicate layer with a multiply blend mode, or both. Here is a quicky that does both but with no other edits. Not a final product, but it illustrates the idea.

[DanK]

This is all I did.