Each year I pass this open field waiting for the signal of spring. This field explodes with thousands of purple and white flowers and it gets my attention real fast. Taking images here is not that easy, you have the obstacle coarse of stumps, boulders, fallen branches, streams and other clutter to pick your away around. Yet the single most difficult challenge is to try and not to squash all these wonderful flowers as you set up your gear.
Of coarse other challenges exist which you have to work you way thru, such as which lens, I choose a wide angle, PCE-24, which I was able to shift during the Image capture. I shot the image using Live view. It took me longer than I’d like to admit, to get the correct focal distance and the correct subject and background distance. You also have to aware of the wind, and I selected this evening when the wind was still.
In the digital darkroom, it was a bit more subjective that processing non-organic images. The colors overlap, and the subject is very tender and frail, so I used a magenta/pink graduated filter to diffuse the background. Then I used NIK tonal contrast for the main flower structure. I really thought it would take only fifteen minutes to put this one together, but it’s been an hour already and it is finlly finished to share.
