Tulip Twins

Kathy, do you capture in RAW or JPEG? Your new black background looks like it is not true black, but almost black. If you are capturing RAW how do you process? I often have to tweak the black slider in Lightroom to get my bg black, especially if I haven't underexposed from the suggested in camera meter reading.

Subject wise -

I see what you mean, Steven. Against the black outline, the background is definitely lighter. I shoot RAW, then do most of my processing in ACR, then usually just resize, adjust levels, and sharpen in photoshop (either CS2 on my laptop or CS4 on my mac). I have Lightroom, but haven't gotten used to it yet. Will have to play around with it some more. I appreciate your critique

I really like this original composition!

Michel.

Beautiful over here too Kathy. I'd be hard pressed to choose between the two but I think I prefer the photo art version just slightly. Your frac works makes it seem richer to me. It's gorgeous here too though.

Pat

Kathy, Lightroom is like Photoshop, go figure, since both are Adobe. Lightroom - the more you play the more you learn. Like Photoshop.

You see what I see, the black border makes the black bg not black. Happens to me with my dining room table studio. Even when I underexpose by up to one stop. Processing through Lightroom, tweaking the black slider makes the almost black bg black and usually improves the subject - non human subjects. Another nice feature of a black bg, can always add to the canvas size if too tightly cropped for a certain aspect ratio.

Thanks for the heads up on facebooking.

Once again a sense of gesture in the 'cuddling" of the flowers. Very well done.

Hi Kathy Beautifully seen and crafted. The color and light are marvelous
Albert Darmo Canada

Kathy: BG issues aside, I really like this comp and DOF choices you made. A tiny 1¢ nit is the light RLC. I think I would clone the darker leaf color in there. Nicely done.>=))>

Wonderful comp and color Kathy !!