Lensbaby Flowers

[Azimuth]

I am enjoying the new toy, here are a couple shots manipulated in Photoshop, Thanks for looking, Cheers

[Skippy]

Hi Leo,

The flowers are pretty and remind me of greeting cards. Can you tell how you did that? They would nice printed on card stock.

Skippy

[Azimuth]

Hi Leo,

The flowers are pretty and remind me of greeting cards. Can you tell how you did that? They would nice printed on card stock.

Skippy

Hi there Skippy, thanks for the comments.

I have a bad habbit of flattening the image before saving the psd file, so I will try to give you a few pointers. First of all this was taken with lensbaby composer at f2.8 to get the blur. Then I used the clarity slider in Lightroom, I find it boosts contrast nicely in the mid tone areas. In Photoshop I layered a b&w version on top of the color one and played around with blend modes until I got the effect I wanted. At the end I applied very strong USM to selected parts. Thats about it.

I posted a few examples in my lensbaby gallery if you would like to see more (link below)

Cheers
Leo

[Pixels]

Nice composition and color in these Leo, and thanks for the post processing tips!

[Bob S.]

Nice work!
Excellent Lensbaby flowers, !

[Skippy]

In Photoshop I layered a b&w version on top of the color one and played around with blend modes until I got the effect I wanted.

That's something I would never think of. Interesting I will have to try that sometime.

Thanks for all the info.

Skippy

[yellalablady]

Great shots. I'm not usually a big fan of the lensbaby, but I really like these flowers. Thanks for the tips.

[Azimuth]

Thank you folks for the comments,

Cheers
Leo