Yet another DB

I found the Dutchmen's Breeches starting to bloom everywhere in P.J. Hoffmaster SP last week. Despite constant breezes, I was able to come away with a few decent shots. A slight Orton effect was added to this one. Critiques always welcome!

Pentax K10D, Sigma 105mm macro, f8 @ 1/60, iso 100

And another fine image Toni, I love the Orton effect in this, beautiful color as well..glad to see the wildflowers appearing in your area now and I hope you get more great images like this !!

Lovely image nice isolation of the blooms.

very nice comp and pleasing image .....Toni
Good use of a nice BG also. well done

I like it, especially the stem leading away from the blooms. Nice catch.

I love this one, Toni! Gorgeous comp and the Orton effect works well here.

Very nice Toni! I'm going to need to look up the "Orton Effect"...

Thanks everyone!

Easy enough to use the Orton method, Michael!

For those of you not familiar with the Orton Effect, these are the steps I use. These instructions are straight from Photo Life magazine when the method was first published:

1. Create a duplicate image
2. In Levels, overexpose bottom/copy layer about one stop
3. Overexpose top layer about 1/2 stop
4. Apply a Gaussian Blur to the copy layer, using a Radius of about 12 for a web sized image...30 or 40 for a full size Tiff.
5. Copy top layer onto bottom layer
6. Select top layer and change blending option from normal to multiply
7. Adjust opacity to suit (1-100)
8. Merge layers

There are other ways to do it also (NPN has a few articles on it!), but I find this to be the easiest way.

Nicely done. I like the flower against the dark green background. I wouldn’t have thought to use Orton on this but it works well.