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Acid Flowers, A trip back to the sixties
Arghhhhhhh my eyes!
Took this picture this afternoon in the fantastic heat and sun. It seems to make my eyes go funny if I look at it for too long. I tried to pick out the flower on the right but not sure if I quite got it right, it still seems a bit busy. Any views on how I could have done better? 
Hi edneeves
Amazing colour! Is that straight from the camera or did you have to tone down  the colours in PP??
Did you take any with dirrefent DOF? I would be interested in seeing a shot with a few more of the flowers in focus - especially in the foreground. Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
I have found that the colour red tends to overload the sensor when in abundance - it happened with my D1 as well
 Chris
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Yes. My solution to this problem is to select reds only and sligtly control it wil levels or even better copy it into new layer and use it in multiply mode with appropiate opacity percentage. It can help, but also it easy to intoduce banding (16-bits should help). Regards, K.Polak
This shot is straight out of the camera, just resized for the web. The reds certainly seem to overcook the sensor as it was really hard to stop them looking washed out.
I didn't get any with more DOF as I was trying to isolate just 1 flower, I thought it would work well but because of the blown reds I don't think it had the effect I was hoping for. Ed.
Edneeves, I was rather thinking about Menu->Select->Color Range and click on red with proper feater or use green channel to get variation for reds. And then play with multiply mode. I didn't mean masking by lasso or so.
Regards, K.Polak
Great colour - maybe just reduce the amount of red in the photo to bring back that detail, another shot from a little higher and with greater depth of field and it would look even better!
Chris
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Mr Polak,
I had a go with what you said and although the difference is very subtle it really brings the detail out in the shot. By reducing the reds a touch and bringing up the greens the picture is much less "acid" and more pleasant to the eye. I use Photoshop very minimally at the moment but I think I need to have a deeper look into it. Its quite hard knowing what will have an effect on what though. For example I would never have thought of bringing up the greens to bring out the detail. Many thanks, Ed.
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