Raindrops on Roses

Processed in Photoshop Elements 6 by adjusting levels and adding a high pass filter.  This is the last burst of blooms before my rose bushes go dormant. Camera settings: Canon Rebel EOS T1i, F/4.5, 1/400 sec., ISO 100, focal length 37 mm.  No flash.

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High Key Rose

Here’s kind of a high key treatment of a rose photo I took today.  I adjusted levels, used a high pass filter and added a layer on blend mode Screen.  Processed as always in Photoshop Elements 6. Camera settings: Canon T1i, F/11, 1/100 sec., ISO 800, focal length 100 mm.  No flash.

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Foreground

Foreground focusing on a Secret rose bud.  Processed in Photoshop Elements with just a high pass filter and levels adjustment.  Have a good weekend, everyone! Camera settings: Canon T1i, F/3.2, 1/125 sec., ISO 100, focal length 100 mm.   No flash.

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Open

An open Secret rose.  Processed in Photoshop Elements with some levels adjustment and burning. Camera settings: Fujifilm FinePix S700, F/3.5, 1/60 sec., ISO 400, focal length 6.3 mm.  No flash.

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Rose Arrangement

Secret rose with background of geranium leaves.  All processed in Photoshop Elements.  Foreground processed with Filter/Brush Strokes/Angled Strokes and dodged.  Background processed with Topaz Simplify buz sim.  Also did some cloning on the rose photo. Camera settings for rose photo: Fujifilm S700, F/5.6, 1/340 sec., ISO 64, focal length 6.3 mm.  No flash.

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Rose

My wonderful husband gave me a new lens for our 34th anniversary!  He surprised me with a new Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens.  It is so cool.  This photo was taken today with the new lens.  Processed in Photoshop Elements with adjusted levels, Topaz Simplify and dodging and burning. Camera settings: Canon T1i, F/16, [...]

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Rose

I was playing around with this photo and the Blur/Smart Blur filter.  The original was cropped and levels adjusted.  Then I ran it through Blur/Smart Blur and used settings of Radius – 3 and Threshold – 25.  The other settings were Quality – High and Mode – Overlay Edge.  The result was dodged and burned [...]

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Daisy and Ant

Taken earlier, this photo has no processing except being cropped and edged.  I almost missed the ant in the upper middle of the blossom.  This was taken with the point and shoot Olympus camera I took to Minnesota.  Hope you all are having a great week! Camera settings: Olympus 7010, f/3, 1/160 sec., ISO 64, [...]

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Rose Center

I took this about 4:30 this afternoon with blowing wind.   It was processed in Photoshop Elements by adjusting levels, cropping and framing.  Took this with my little Fujifilm camera.  Camera settings: Fujifilm S700.  F/6.3, 1/280 sec., ISO 64, focal length 6.3.  No flash.

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Complex

Nothing can be as complex or simple as nature.  Here is the center of an amaryllis blossom.  Complex in structure but simple in design.  Processed in Photoshop Elements by sharpening, adjusting levels and using a High Pass filter.  Finally, I ran it through Topaz DeNoise.    Have a great weekend everyone! Camera settings: Fujifilm S700, F/3.5, [...]

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