By Lynne Rogers Harris
The Best of Spring by Lynne Rogers Harris (ISO 200, f5.6, 1/2000)
Recently, I met a fellow photographer at River Legacy Park in Arlington, Texas, to try a new technique.
Another Trinity Arts Photography Club (TAPC) member had shared a video on how to shoot and process high-key images. This isn’t exactly high key, but the method used was about the same. I took a white board and placed it behind the flowers and shot a little over-exposed. This made it much easier to turn the background a nice white when editing in Photoshop.
I found that if I shot with the sun directly on the flowers, I had to do some maneuvering to get rid of the dark shadows. I actually shot several flowers that I thought turned out pretty good. I processed this with the white background, did a little cloning to take out
‘ junk,’ and voila — I had my image.
This photo is actually a composite of two shots. I thought these type of images with flowers made nice little cards, so I’ve printed several of them.
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