Nice ethereal look. I'd try a bottom crop that cut off the lower end of the limb. I would, however, leave a part of the lower right yellow leaf. Like it as is, however!
Jack --- On Mon, 4/12/10, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > From: John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> > Subject: PESO: Sweet Japanese Maple > To: pdml@pdml.net > Date: Monday, April 12, 2010, 1:52 PM > Went out to Raulston Arboretum in > Raleigh mid-day today. Just wanted to get out and photograph > SOMETHING! It's either that or cut the damn grass (which I'm > going to have to do this afternoon anyway). > > I was struck by the color of the Japanese Maple. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/4515958550/sizes/o/ > > Brought it home & played with it for just about 5 > minutes to create a "Tony Sweet" image. > > Just a layer with a bit of Gaussian Blur at about 60% > opacity over the image plus a saturation boost adjustment > layer at about 25% opacity. > > Also tried to do it using motion blur layer, but that > didn't seem to work so well. > > Anyway, say what you will, I think it turned out OK for > just goofing around. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
