June Birthdays Water Lily by TwoPynts

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Jun 02, 2006

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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." "Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses." "Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous." "Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen." "Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else." "Life well spent is long." -all quotes by Leonardo Da Vinci

Yep, another water lily photo, this one nice and close. I considered cropping in even closer, but I like the way the outer petals add to the effect of making this look like one of nature's fireworks. Let me respond to some questions I have been asked since starting this series. How do I get my images so sharp? Well, not all of them are, but you better believe the ones I put in my gallery will be, if that is the intent. I don't have expensive equipment (Olympus C-8080WZ) and only sometimes use a tripod, but I try to keep as still as possible while shooting and try to get as high a shutter speed as possible. I actually have my in-camera sharpening set to lower than standard. When I post-process my images in PhotoshopCS, selective sharpening is on of the steps I normally go through. The trick is not to overdo it...sometimes tough. As for the rest of the postwork, well, that varies with each image, but I usually put each image through a gamut of levels/curves adjustment, selective dodging and burning, noise removal, hue/saturation adjustment, and a variety of artistic enhancements. Thanks for your interest and I'll happily answer any specific question anyone may have. I learn something new with every photo, that is part of the fun. ----- Please join me in wishing all the June bugs a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONTH! Some of them I know and count as friends include Mary (marybelgium), Egmont (camera2, CameraObscura, egmont), Henk (Hedepo), Magorzata (Niutek), Kim (bentchick) and Kai (short_ribs). I'm sure I missed some of you so let me know and I'll add you to the list! And I can't forget my son Connor who turns 6 today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all of you! ----- Many thanks for your umbrageous comments on my last upload, In the Shade of a Lily.

----- Olympus C-8080WZ & PhotoshopCS. (635)

Comments (31)

Visual_Poetry_101

12:00PM | Sat, 17 June 2006

Thank you for the BD wishes and a most wonderful flower. Water lilies are some of my favorite as i have a number of them growing in the garden but only one flowered this year so far. As you can see, i have not been on RR for some time now and therefore missed your wonderful dedication to us June babies. Hope all is well with you. Egmont