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Nice shot of this field of sunflowers, like the red admiral too
As good as I expected it to be, Dave! I'm not sure I agree that added contrast actually contributes to this scene. It's one of those rare instances where the appearance which added contrast gives of more depth actually weakens the impact of that all-important foreground. There are so many "stars in the show" (butterfly on the open flower; the large flower turning to the left; the two taller flowers on the right; the curiously shaped flower on the left) to which, in my opinion, the lesser contrast gives equal prominence by appearing to place them on the same plain.
Ian, I have just looked again and I see what you mean, its pushed the flowers on the left back a bit. I went back to the RAW and have probably got somewhere in between. This will need a couple of versions to see what looks best, I will have a couple of small test prints done I think.
Dave
Dave
Lol, funnily enough Martin I was just working on this again in CS2 and was burning in the sky a bit when I heard the email go! You are bang on and my version now looks very similar. I just want a big print of this and I know that yellows go out of gamma (gammut?) pretty easily so my original was reigned in a bit (its why I used the 0.6 grad on the foreground. I do like the contrastier versions though I take Ians comments about the elements receding a bit. I need to work on this at the lab I think, thanks for your comments and time on this really appreciated.
Dave
Dave
