August 2019 Critique Group

KarenWatts-Purple Passion

While in Winston-Salem, NC for my father-in-law’s funeral we visited Reynolda Gardens in Wake Forest University. What a beautiful, peaceful place, and I had my pick of many purple flowers. These are orchids in one of the hothouses.

I did do some manipulation, “just because I could”. First I increased the vibrance, then duplicated the layer and used the soft light blend mode. I extracted the flowers and put them on a separate layer, then did a Gaussian blur so the background would be blurred but not the flowers. Increased the canvas size and used a texture under the photo, gave it a drop shadow and a stroke border.
Shot with my Iphone.