Crimson Red Flowers

Written June 24, 2008 in Canon 20D, Cork, Fitzgerald Park, Flowers, Ireland, Nature, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Urban

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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!

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11 comments on ' Crimson Red Flowers '

  1. 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!

      Written by Phil on June 24, 2008 at 9:26pm

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

      Written by Darren on June 24, 2008 at 10:48pm

  3. Amazing colour. Really vibrant but still natural looking.

      Written by Latchiko on June 24, 2008 at 11:24pm

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

      Written by Dee on June 24, 2008 at 11:33pm

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

      Written by geraldine on June 25, 2008 at 9:02am

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

      Written by jedrzej on June 25, 2008 at 1:05pm

  7. Nice and punchy, I like.

      Written by Detour on June 25, 2008 at 1:06pm

  8. I really like the water drop sitting on the petals.

      Written by Chris Osborne on June 25, 2008 at 6:44pm

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

      Written by John McDermott on June 25, 2008 at 7:34pm

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

      Written by Phil on June 28, 2008 at 10:26pm

  11. 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 :)

      Written by Donncha on June 28, 2008 at 10:49pm

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