A beautiful flower! Following up on Larry's comment, what might help a lot
is a radial filter in lightroom to darken the background and lighten the
flower. Or use the post-crop vignetting slider.

Henk

Op vr 3 feb. 2023 om 06:51 schreef Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com>:

>
>
> > On Feb 2, 2023, at 9:17 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > From the garden in our resort condo:
> >
> > http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2023/2/2/bird-of-pa
> >
> > K-5 IIs, smc DA 35 mm F 2.8 Macro Limited
> > Comments and criticisms are invited and appreciated.
>
> Lovely flower, I wish that it were better separated from the background.
>
> If I were shooting it, and couldn’t arrange to have a simple black
> background behind it, I would try and do some sort of Rembrandt lighting on
> it, either with a speed light when there was less background light, or even
> just some sort of hot light at night from the side so that the leaves
> behind the flower were not illuminated.  Possibly doing something fancy to
> shade the leaves and use a mirror or reflector to put more sunlight on the
> flower.
>
> Another thing that might help is to use a longer lens and move back so
> that there is a lot less background visible, so that more of the background
> were something darker that contrasts more with the flower (like the leaves
> in shadow rather than sunlight concrete)
>
>
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