Sunday, April 17, 2022

[Dave]

Thanks for starting the Daily, Michael. That's a very good photo: the lines and forms make an excellent composition, you have a nice variety of textures, and the values are handled expertly.

I hope you don't mind me not keeping to the theme of indoor photography. On an early walk a few days ago a low ray of sun found it's way between houses and trees to adorn a single rose. It didn't last long, so I managed only a few photos.

The images below are different crops and adjustments of the same photo.

1) The unadjusted starting image - not much to see here...

   

2) After tweaking to stress the light falling on the rose, cropping just a little, and flipping horizontally...

   

3) Cropped to portrait orientation, deeper and richer oranges, and I had fun bringing out some blue and red-violet here and there...