Twisted

Aged vines in the Temperate House at Kew Gardens, London.

Any comments are welcome and appreciated. Thanks, Lucy

A nice work, with good use of a narrow depth of field.

What digital alterations have you done? I can see the dark outline in the centre but no other obvious changes.

P

I was interested in discussions on: this technique and thought it might add something to this photo. So my method was:

duplicate photo

convert duplicate layer to b&w and merge using 'Soft Light'

Then flattened and used extreme USM.

Finally added some vignette.

In fact that dark edge in the centre can be seen in the original file. It has just been emphasised by darkening the shadows.

I can see this sort of technique could be overdone and be cliched but for now I think/hope it did add something to this photograph.

Many thanks for sharing!

Lucy, The link to the technique didn't work.

P

what a magnificant piece of phtographical art you have created here, Lucy! I love the shallow DOF and the crispy and sharp in focus branches. also the muted colors work great here, congrats, very nice :) greets,

patrick

Hi Lucy

A beautiful simple image with subtle colour, eye drawing detail in the stems and a lovely creamy background.

All the best, Mike