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January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:14 am
by DaveW
Jfabiao indicates I have to set this months competition again. It is getting harder to come up with something new, but what about a close up of your plants, or even a cropped close up from an existing image? My pictures below do not count for the competition and are solely here as illustrations. You can produce close up's from your existing pictures by creative cropping in post processing, often giving an image a slight diagonal twist to enhance it, or an existing close up will do.
See how to:-
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000989.htm
http://photographingflowers.blogspot.co ... hotos.html
The original picture.
Cropped version
Other similar crops
Evidently this was a crop in camera, rotating the plant slightly since there are four stigmas showing, but only two in the picture of the plant.
Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:38 am
by Spro
Hope for more blooms this year
Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 1:17 pm
by Jim_Mercer
A close up with a bit of a crop
I suppose I could have made use of all those mega pixels to crop this picture taken further away but I suspect the results would only have been suitable for viewing on small screens
Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 4:26 pm
by DaveW
Should have said, don't forget to crop on a copy of your picture and keep the original uncropped one. Save the cropped version under another name.
Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:30 pm
by Paul in Essex
Puya humilis flowers in my garden.
Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 11:44 am
by Tony R
A couple of
Tunilla circles:
Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:43 pm
by daniel82
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Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:12 am
by rodsmith
Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:41 pm
by Sheila
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Re: January 2017 - Close Up or Creative Crop.
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:35 am
by DaveW
One of two good ones therefore it was hard to choose, but I give it to Rod for the Notocactus leninghausii with hoverfly therefore he can set February's competition.
DaveW