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Water Lily in the shade about noonish, you can see its not doneopening fully yet. About an hour later it started closing again, aftera brief window of Sun that appeared on the flower between the walls ofthe houses

5D, 180 mm macro, Polarizer, Thanks for the comments and critiques.

Cheers,

+Lalit

could you comment on post-processing? did you for example, increase saturation - if so, by home much? colors look vibrant - but curious if you had to increase saturation.

thanks for sharing.

Thanks guys. Good comments Chandra Mouli. I also wondered earlier about only one petal that broke the symmetry. But later on I thought, its best to show what's happening there right now in this seemingly static macro shot.

The colors were very vibrant, I had to be very careful about adding anything to the original colors. A very slight increase in the saturation, and luminance especially on the yelloes in lightroom 2. Since this photo was taken in a shade, I removed blue cast by slightly increasing the temperature. I slightly increased the shadows but not much, as the inherent softness by the light reflecting from the petals needed to be preserved. Carefully worked on the contrasts on only fine level for the same reason.

thanks and regards,

+Lalit

Thanks Stephen, you are right the off center composition helped me put focus on the wonderful patterns in the water lily while vibrant colors painted them.

Regards

+Lalit