New to forum, first post for critique.
Nice focus & depth of field but I would have moved the flower a little more up in the frame. Having the one petal falling out of the frame takes away from the photo... I can't help but wonder if a different angle would have worked here as well...
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Blinked wrote: For some reason I feel like I never no where to draw the line when it comes to post processing.
The line is where you want it to be. That's the beauty of digital: you can try all kinds of things to see what speaks to you.
Here's your image from LR3 with the sharpening masked a bit and pushed.
Here's that image, but with luminance pushed all the way up. Notice what it does to the areas of color.
Put the luminance back to 0, and add some basic processing: added clarity and vibrance, deepen the blacks, add contrast.
And finally, take that, but move the clarity to the left to soften the image.
None of these is intended to suggest "this is how you should process the image", just ideas to show you what could be done. Personally, i like #2, give the colors and shapes in the image.
I find it helpful to push an effect until I can clearly see it, then back off. I also switch between "with" and "without" a lot to help me decide how far to go.
Don't be afraid to experiment. Don't be afraid to have fun.
First I cropped out some of the pointless background. I boosted the brightness/contrast/vibrance/saturation a little. Then used a masked-overlayed-inverted-strong-highpass filter to soften the background.
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