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ISMAEL MARCOS
{K:10535} 11/11/2005
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VERY BEAUTIFUL
PURPLE IS NICE IN THIS PIC
REGARDS FROM SPAIN
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 9/20/2005
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Thankyou Peter.
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 9/20/2005
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Thankyou verymuch Cecelica.
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Ceceilia Robinson
{K:1023} 9/19/2005
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Deb, I know you would like to create a blurred bokeh, but not with this image I hope. It is beautiful just the way you present it. Color, DOF and Composition are excellent.
Let me also take the time to say Thank You for viewing my Monarch Macro., Best Regards, Ceceilia
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Peter De Rycke
{K:41212} 9/19/2005
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Beautiful, like a planet (or star) and its satellite ! Peter
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 9/16/2005
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Thankyou verymuch Chris.
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 9/16/2005
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Wonderful colour and detail, Debarshi.
Best regards, Chris
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 9/9/2005
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Thankyou Ron.
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 9/9/2005
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Thankyou Mari.
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 9/9/2005
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You are right Ry, you need time to get a good composition. But this shot was taken when I was on tour with my companies sales team and tooks some very quickshots. I do not carry my slrs on tour and the W1 is the only equipment I was carrying at that tiome. How ever I could not avoid those bright flowers in the background as they were present all around the flower at different angles.
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Ellen Smith
{K:14418} 9/9/2005
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Ah you have done the right thing making the second layer with just the flower. Now if you use the magic wand or what ever you prefer select the edge of the flower, go to the heading select and then down to modify and choose feather start with a # like 5 or 10 just to see how it works. If all works well your edges should blur some. Now you can merge or flatten the image just to have a look at the effect, if its to much or to little go ctrl Z and it will unflatten and you can make the changes you like. Let me know how you work out with this.
Ellen
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Ray Heath
{K:4559} 9/9/2005
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g'day Debarshi, maybe you should have thought about these issues of presentation at the time of taking the image
dof
diffusion
high iso
diffused light
composition to avoid bright objects in bgnd
etc
not everything is 'fixable' in ps
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Mari Mar
{K:11469} 9/8/2005
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Fantastic as it is, great image, congrats, love it, 7!
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Todd Weeks
{K:7636} 9/8/2005
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Debarshi,
I am honoured that you renamed your photo for me. I think I will add it to my favorites.
Todd
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Ron Wilson
{K:18362} 9/8/2005
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Outstanding shot. I wouldn't touch it in PS. It really is well done.
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 9/8/2005
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Thankyou Allen. I have very limited knowledge with photoshop. Here I first created a duplicate layer and then selected the flower with the magnetic lasso tools and then played around with the first layer when I suddenly say that I could do this kind of an effect. But after this I wanted to softne up the edges and didnt know how to do it. Now I know. Thankyou and everybody else here for helping me out.
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Ellen Smith
{K:14418} 9/8/2005
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This is a superb image I like it this way. To help answer your question though, once you select the edges you can then feather the edges and it will soften them. You could make another layer with say 25% gray and then use a light eraser to bring out what you want. I have a plug-in called Flaming Pear that has a filter call melancholy that will put a blur around the flowers. I hate the lasso tool also but what ever you used here looks like it worked like a charm. You could really do a lot once you have this selected, try control J after you have the flower selected, it puts the flower on a separate layer and then you can change the background or just work on the two elements separately.
I hope this gives you a leg up so to speak. I'm about half way through my first cuppa tea so I hope some of this makes sense. lol
Ellen
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 9/8/2005
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Thankyou Joe for the help.
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Joe Ciccone
{K:3684} 9/8/2005
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you can use the 'blur' or 'smudge' tools to kill the sharpe lines.
hope you don't mind but you can also 'distort'
by 'finger-painting' with these same tools.
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 9/8/2005
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oh.. yes my friend.. is well, all.. but also I hope taht for you all is ok!!!
cheers
roby
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 9/8/2005
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Thankyou verymuch Darlene for you comment.
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 9/8/2005
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Hi Roberto, hearing from you after a long time, hope you are doing ok. Thankyou for your apprectiation.
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 9/8/2005
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so debarshi..
how are you!?!?
a very wonderful colored flowers-portrait!
the sense in the title and photo is so good..
well done, also the post production for the desaturation.. very well realized..!
roby
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 9/8/2005
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Features critique of the day ! Way to go Dada !
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 9/4/2005
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Thankyou very much Roberto.
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Roberto Okamura
{K:22851} 9/3/2005
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Excellent work Debarshi!
Very beautiful colors and details!
Congrats!
Roberto.
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Darlene Boucher
{K:15739} 9/1/2005
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Beautiful image Debarshi, I wouldn't change a thing!!
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 8/28/2005
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Todd this shot has e new title , named after your observations.
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 8/26/2005
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Thankyou Todd. I never saw the shot from your angle, great to hear a totally dirrerent aspect of the shot.
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Todd Weeks
{K:7636} 8/26/2005
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Debarshi,
This is an incredible floral shot. The composition is superb. There is a potential to see a lot of symbolism in this photo. Being an amateur astronomer, I can imagine the large, open flower as the sun, and the small, closed flower as the earth orbiting around it.
Todd
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 8/24/2005
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I will surely do that Dada. Thankyou verymuch.
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Subhash Sen
{K:11931} 8/24/2005
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Dear Deb i do not know much about photoshop but you can do it by using a macro filter & focussing on the mid zone,suppose u use +3 ,+10 macro filters you will find it difficult to focus initially but once you do on the portion you want to the effects are amazing ,just try this i do it to a lot of my florals ,love,dada.
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 8/24/2005
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Thankyou Susie, the reason I wanted to correct the sharp edges is that Im not too good with the magnetic lasso tool in PS.
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Susie OConnor
{K:34798} 8/24/2005
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Wish I could offer advice...I just love this, sharp edges and all. Beautiful colors, comp and dof.
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