© 2008 Donncha O Caoimh crimson red flowers

Crimson Red Flowers

Glowing red flowers captured my attention at Fitzgerald’s Park a year ago, but I was never happy with my work on this photo until recently. Now I love it. Hope you like it too!

16 Comments

  1. Posted June 24, 2008 at 9:26 pm | #

    wow this is awesome. cant stop looking it. it reminds me of something, a movie i think but i cant think of which…
    just great job!

  2. Darren
    Posted June 24, 2008 at 10:48 pm | #

    Fantastic colours. I can see why you are happy with it now.

  3. Latchiko
    Posted June 24, 2008 at 11:24 pm | #

    Amazing colour. Really vibrant but still natural looking.

  4. Dee
    Posted June 24, 2008 at 11:33 pm | #

    Great colour! and I love the composition there’s a real feeling of a whole new world in there.
    Nice work

  5. Posted June 25, 2008 at 9:02 am | #

    stunning, the colours just keep your eyes glued to the image. really beautiful!

  6. Posted June 25, 2008 at 1:05 pm | #

    great quality. the purple fellows in top left spoil the impact a bit, imho.

  7. Posted June 25, 2008 at 1:06 pm | #

    Nice and punchy, I like.

  8. Chris Osborne
    Posted June 25, 2008 at 6:44 pm | #

    I really like the water drop sitting on the petals.

  9. John McDermott
    Posted June 25, 2008 at 7:34 pm | #

    Very nice. any chance we could see a before and after with details of what you did?

  10. Posted June 28, 2008 at 10:26 pm | #

    I still love this photo. i wanna know how you did it I will torture you about it next week.

  11. Posted June 28, 2008 at 10:49 pm | #

    John – I haven’t forgotten. Hopefully tomorrow!

    I don’t remember exactly what I did, but I know I desaturated most of the colours a bit, then brought the reds and yellows back up. Then I increased contrast and may have over sharpened with USM.

    Then I created an overlay layer, and painted in a circular gradient so that the flower on the middle-right was brighter than the rest. Or I may have created a darkened copy of the image, and used a layer mask to hide some of it around that same flower.

    Unfortunately I didn’t save a xcf copy of the photo.

    Phil – looking forward to meeting up :)

  12. Nicole
    Posted June 30, 2009 at 7:18 pm | #

    Hey, does anyone know what kind of flowers these are? Thanks!

  13. Ia
    Posted July 17, 2009 at 2:14 am | #

    what is the name of this flower i tried searching for it but i can’t find it

  14. allie
    Posted July 28, 2009 at 6:36 pm | #

    wow this picture is truely amazing… i wish i could reach out and touch it its so pretty.. keep up the awsome work!!

  15. Mattie Williams
    Posted August 2, 2009 at 6:15 pm | #

    Those flowers are so beautiful.

  16. genet
    Posted August 7, 2009 at 6:45 am | #

    this isthe most and good happay

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