Trilliums in Bloom

[cliffmccartney]

I went to the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont this past Saturday for a bit of photography therapy . I went in the middle of a beautiful sunny day, so the light wasn't great for shooting the river or the spring foliage, but I pulled out the ND filter and made the best of it.

I did find a nice patch of trilliums in bloom. I processed these with Topaz Impression, then loaded the converted image with the original as layers in Photoshop. I added a layer mask to the original and painted some of the detail back into the petals.

I welcome and greatly appreciate C&C. Specifically, do you think the art conversion works on the flowers? Does the re-add of the details on the petals work, or does it look unnatural? Is the composition ok? I was a little concerned about being dead center, but I think it works. Is the background too busy? Anything wrong with the post-processing?

Thanks for viewing!

#1


#2


And just for grins, a waterfall shot through the ND filter:


But wait, there's more! Another waterfall:


Thanks for viewing!!

Cliff

[bnnrcn]

Hi Cliff I prefer #2 to #1. The waterfall shots are nice too. I think you have a slight red color cast in #3.

[deetheturk]

Very nice Cliff!

[Barbara Ponder]

Nice series.