My Auricula plants

[ST1]

My Auricula plants are just starting to come to life, normally I just take a record image of them with my phone, but with the current virus situation I decided to spend a little more time and do them justice.

This image was taken last Friday, looking at it again this morning I'm now considering a series of high key images,of the different varieties of auricula that I have. Also rather than standing the pot on a recycling bin lid using the ivy on a garden wall as a background, I thinking more of a studio still life approach.

This is one of the first varieties to come into bloom, it is classed as a "Striped Show" Auricula. For anyone who may be interested there's a couple of other types taken on the same day in the "recent work" gallery of my website.

Stay Safe everyone.

[billtils]

Nice shot Peter - would like to see more but couldn't find a link to your website.

[ST1]

Nice shot Peter - would like to see more but couldn't find a link to your website.

Hi Bill if you click on the Auricula image you should get an option to view in the gallery or to follow the link. Following the link will take you to the website


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[DanK]

Very nice image.

I agree that fiddling with the background could help. The light areas near the flower are a distraction. You could lessen this issue with this capture with a little editing. I started on one: dropped selected everything but the flower, dropped the output white point of the selected area; burned down some of the white areas; and reversed the selection to add a tad of local contrast (unsharp mask, radius 50, threshold 0, amount 10) to the flower. Not a complete edit, and I would do more if it were mine, but I need to run now, and I think this shows that with some editing, you could make the flower stand out more and downplay the light areas in the background.

I hope this helps

[Wavelength]

So lovely an image; i would love to remove the blurred leaf seen towards the bottom, or trimming that part away.