Water Lily

Gallery: FloraPosted April 23, 20181,348 views14 comments

Another water lily shot. I am making a project of these. Fun to play with whether to get the water to reflect or not.

I did split tone the highlights to give the water reflection a little more interest. Did not seem to me that would be considered Photo Art, so I put it here. If that is incorrect, will move it.

Regards to all. Its a lovely spring day here in Colorado but snow coming tomorrow :(

Comments

14 comments

Comment posted by Bill Fach on April 24, 2018 at 12:03 AM

Kathy: I always think its good to thoroughly work a subject. I liked your first one a lot and this is right up there with it as well. wonderful color palette and your treatment of the water is excellent..>=))>

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Comment posted by Balan Vinod on April 24, 2018 at 1:35 AM

Kathy...one of the best water lily images ive come across. Beautifully crafted and a fine color palette..

Balan Vinod

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on April 24, 2018 at 3:11 AM

Beautiful - love the colours and hint of detail in the water.
Sandy

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Comment posted by Philip Southard on April 24, 2018 at 2:30 PM

Wow, nice one Kathy! Nice color and comp.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on April 24, 2018 at 7:46 PM

I'll echo Bill. Good work!

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Comment posted by Elizabeth Arellano on April 25, 2018 at 8:46 AM

Beautiful, well composed, the reflection is superb, well done.

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on April 25, 2018 at 9:29 AM

Kathy,
Excellent, the large version is a joy to view . . . laugh

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Comment posted by John Tobias on April 25, 2018 at 9:32 AM

WOW! A real work of art IMHO. I can see this large on a wall. No nits. thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Craig Moreau on April 25, 2018 at 10:24 AM

Kathy, this is a really simple, well-constructed composition. I like your work on the reflection. I don't know what it looked like before, but as presented it looks very natural. Very nice!

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Comment posted by Kathy Snead on April 25, 2018 at 5:47 PM

All:

Thank you for all the nice comments. Its very helpful to know if I am going in a good direction!! Many thanks!!!

I have posted the original here. This file just has some minor lightroom changes. I did not split tone it at this point. As I recall I took it through topaz clarity, added canvas in PS and did some sharpening and noise reduction. Bringing it back into LR, I did a little brush work on the highlights in the lily and also on the reflection as I thought it too dark and wanted to bring out some detail.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on April 26, 2018 at 12:47 PM

Kathy: Thanks for posting the original. Your processing efforts produced a really superior result. Most excellent.>=))>

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on May 7, 2018 at 3:35 PM

Just gorgeous! (Love them all)
Congrats on the WP!
Sandy

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Comment posted by Ed Williams on May 7, 2018 at 6:27 PM

Ditto everyone's comments Kathy. This is really elegant and really well crafted. Nice work.

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Comment posted by Giuseppe Guadagno on May 8, 2018 at 5:04 AM

Kethy I missed this beautiful floral photo but non Jim luckily. Splendid.

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