Not just a rose but an evening rose.
BG as shot with 70-200, 2.8 and 1DsMk2.
Thanks for looking.
Martin

Nice shot Martin I like the color of the rose and there's definitely NO bright light on this one

Ant

Lovely shot Martin

Lil

wonderful, it looks almos like a painting.

very well done.

Beautiful image, Martin.
Socrate

I like the rose, but the bkg would look better with less blue maybe.. heck I don't know. Great mood.

Martin, I find that to be a very pleasing photograph. I would be proud to have it as one of mine.

Tim

I think your title fits well Martin. Cool hues of evening and a delightful creamy pink bloom. Only thought would be if a vertical would enhance it more? Nice subtle shot!

Karl

Martin,

Don't change a thing. I hope you printed one up and framed it to hang on your wall -

beautiful......very sharp yet soft, and that's the good soft!

if you will convert this AdobeRGB image to sRGB, it will display better
color in most browsers. Looks a bit muddy in a non color managed browser

I like the soft pleasing feel of this Martin. Congrats.

Jude

Exquisitely-captured, Martin. Did you desaturate the bg post-process to get that effect? Whether altered or au naturel, it's very subtle-y done...

Best Wishes,
Steve

anthony whitmo wrote:
Nice shot Martin I like the color of the rose and there's definitely NO bright light on this one
HI Anthony,
Wanted to do one in isolation and with no bright spots following your helpful advice.
Cheers,
Martin
Ant

Lil Judd wrote:
Lovely shot Martin

Lil

Glad you liked it Lil.
Martin

Genes Home wrote:
wonderful, it looks almos like a painting.

very well done.
Thanks Gene,
I thought it was a bit special myself and tried to create a special effect with it. Thanks for your nice comment.
Martin

Shasoc wrote:
Beautiful image, Martin.
Socrate
Thanks Socrate. Very pleased you liked it. I followed your formula to pp it. See below.
Martin

72chevelle454 wrote:
I like the rose, but the bkg would look better with less blue maybe.. heck I don't know. Great mood.
Hi Chad,
If it gets you thinking about it that's good too!
I didn't change the background color at all.
Martin


Tim Kuhn wrote:
Martin, I find that to be a very pleasing photograph. I would be proud to have it as one of mine.

Tim
Thanks Tim, that means a lot to me.
Martin

Edited by Martin Good on Aug 06, 2008 at 08:19 PM GMT

Edited by Martin Good on Aug 06, 2008 at 08:21 PM GMT

Karl Witt wrote:
I think your title fits well Martin. Cool hues of evening and a delightful creamy pink bloom. Only thought would be if a vertical would enhance it more? Nice subtle shot!

Karl
Thanks Karl. I thought about making it a bit more vertical but I did not want to lose any of the foliage underneath.
Glad you liked it.
Martin
davidearls wrote:
Martin,

Don't change a thing. I hope you printed one up and framed it to hang on your wall -
David,
Had not thought of it but will try a print and see how it turns out.
Thanks for your comment.
Martin

Dave In La wrote:
beautiful......very sharp yet soft, and that's the good soft!

if you will convert this AdobeRGB image to sRGB, it will display better
color in most browsers. Looks a bit muddy in a non color managed browser

Hi Dave,
Maybe soft is now good too!!
Thanks for the advice and your nice comment. Will try a conversion as you suggest.
Martin

Jude Perera wrote:
I like the soft pleasing feel of this Martin. Congrats.
Glad you liked it Jude. Thanks for looking and for your nice comment.
Martin
Jude

trailhiker wrote:
Exquisitely-captured, Martin. Did you desaturate the bg post-process to get that effect? Whether altered or au naturel, it's very subtle-y done...

Best Wishes,
Steve
Hi Steve,
I tried to follow the Socrate formula as kindly copied to me by Anthony and I have copied it here for your ease of reference.
Thanks for looking and for your comment.
Martin
"I only do the sharpening as my last adjustment (no sharpening in RAW) and I use the Smart Sharpening tool. Amount 100 - Radius 0.2 - Remove: lens blur - More accurate: Unchecked. I usually do one, to three passes with that setting as needed. After every pass I use the fade command (go to edit/fade sharpening/luminosity mode) and I use the Luminosity mode to apply the sharpening only to luminosity. This has the same effect as converting to Lab mode and sharpening the Luminosity channel only, but it is faster and less destructive . If needed I reduce the opacity a bit also. I hardly use the advanced mode of the Smart sharpening.
Those are my settings for the web sharpening. For the normal sharpening I use higher values for the radius, but I hardly exceed 1.0. Uncheck/check the "Preview" check box to have a better view of how much sharpening you've applied. When you think your sharpening looks good reduce the opacity of about 20% because we all have the tendency to oversharpen a bit.
It is also important to get the image's overall tonality right to begin with. This will bring more detail to be sharpened."

Martin, this is absolutely lovely

Very nice Martin.

BEAUTIFUL, Martin! Wonderfully captured.

Jenna

Very pretty Martin... I like it very much...

Terry

MaggieBee wrote:
Martin, this is absolutely lovely


Rob Tillyer wrote:
Very nice Martin.



Raindrop_333 wrote:
BEAUTIFUL, Martin! Wonderfully captured.

Jenna


Terry D wrote:
Very pretty Martin... I like it very much...

Terry
Maggie Bee, Rob, Raindrop and Terry D,
Delighted you all liked it and thanks so much for your comments.
Martin

Lovely shot with pretty soft colors.
Harsha

Super shot Martin great PP too!

Nello....back home for 2 days..then packin' up for US