Youth and Old Age

[Urbanflyer]

After a hiatus to do other things I am back to shooting.
Youth and Old Age by urbanflyer, on Flickr

[ST1]

Very nice Sunflowers Judith, I like the fresh youthful colour but feel more personally aligned to the other one !


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[billtils]

Nice image, nice title, nice to have you back.

[xpatUSA]

Great theme and welcome back, Judith.

Technical note:

The youthful petal colors are false, with lots of clipped reds and bottomed blues. This can occur when a flower is edited to look pretty in a wider color space (ProPhoto, Melissa, Adobe 1998) and then converted to sRGB for posting.

[DanK]

Nice image!

Re the problem Ted noted: this is very common with both intensely yellow flowers and intensely red flowers. This can also happen for other reasons, e.g., adding contrast in normal blend mode to a flower that is very highly saturated to begin with.

Often this is accompanied by a loss of detail, although this posted image is too small for me to see whether that's happening.

One technique to avoid or lessen this, if you are using photoshop or something similarly powerful, is to apply tonality adjustments--in particular, but not necessarily only, midtone contrast--with a luminosity blend mode. That won't increase saturation.

[xpatUSA]

Judith,

Dan posted some good stuff while I was messing with your image.

Here's the younger edited with L*a*b* adjustments:



1) reduced chromaticity (saturation)

2) increased lightness (tonal) contrast

3) reduced overall lightness a tad

Then applied de-convolution sharpening to bring back the Fibonacci spirals.

All the above done in RawTherapee - don't leave home without it ...

[Urbanflyer]

thanks Ted and Dan. Always more to learn!

[pschlute]

I know which one I am !

[Martin A]

In my mind I am the young, vibrant flower on the left. Yet in reality I'm afraid I more closely resemble the flower on the right. Nice image Judith.