Calla In Evening Shadows

[oldhippy]

_NIK6795-Edit by ed brown, on Flickr

 

[Jeff15]

Lovely flower.....

 

[K9Kirk]

I agree with Jeff, lovely.

 

[jcdeboever]

Beautifully rendered.

 

[ntz]

Hello oldhippy ...

please don't take it any personal .. my honest opinion is that this photo is just very nice, composition and the object and the mood, but imho I am not satisfied with the postprocess .. photo seems very flat to me, the yellow part is almost \wo details and also as whole it seems underexposed to me ... I think that with L*a*b tool could be made a great adjustments selectively by hue (color) regions and different luminosity (value) regions ..

in my opinion you tend to do it with a lot of your photos so it drives me to ask why ? Probably you're using a too bright display profile so your photos are often underexposed here (I use 20-30% backlight level for editing photos and/or low-light profile "paper" on my other Dell LCD) and often they have less contrast that I think they should have (so again, your display settings ?) .. Another thing is that you seem to be using a global adjustments whilst for your kind of photos (strong colourful objects in detail) you should rather use L*a*b and HSV like tools rather than global adjustments ...

cheers, ~dan