Dew drops and poppies

Hi All,

Here's a few more photos of my jaunt around my neighborhood. Since poppies are the rage now, I just had to take a bunch of photos of them. One thing that caught my eye, though, was dew drops, of all things. For a distance, they are just that ... a water drop. But if you look closer, these dew drops act like miniature fisheye lenses. These shots are kinda experimental to me and your CC's are most welcome.

1. A traditional shot

what lens were these captured on?

Good shots. Second one is the best imo.

glenne79 wrote in post #7499727
what lens were these captured on?

The first shot was with the Canon 70-200m (focal length 173mm), and the others were with my Tamron 17-50mm (focal length 50mm). The latter shots I went as close as my lens would let me which would be about 10 inches.

-Wes

Love the Lightroom treatment on #3--gonna have to steal that idea! BTW, what, in a nutshell, is the difference between working with Lightroom and Photoshop? I'm a Photoshopper myself

akpfeiff wrote in post #7499962
Love the Lightroom treatment on #3--gonna have to steal that idea! BTW, what, in a nutshell, is the difference between working with Lightroom and Photoshop? I'm a Photoshopper myself

ditto here

i like #3 best but i dont know how to do that in lightroom. i have to import from LR to photoshot and do that in layers. AM I MISSING SOMETHING HERE CAN THIS ACTUALLY BE DONE IN LIGHTROOM W/O SENDING IT TO CS3 ??

IF SO PLEASE POST,,WOULD SAVE ME SOME TIME

akpfeiff wrote in post #7499962
Love the Lightroom treatment on #3--gonna have to steal that idea! BTW, what, in a nutshell, is the difference between working with Lightroom and Photoshop? I'm a Photoshopper myself

I guess in a nutshell Lightroom is geared more for photographers. It integrates the photo management, editing, printing, and even web export into one package. I don't have to much experience with Photoshop. I've found with Lightroom you to edit many photos fairly quickly (with a number of sliders in the right panel), but with Photoshop you concentrate a few photos but with many creative options. Adobe has a 30-day free trial of Lightroom, and you might give that a go.

-Wes

slowdad wrote in post #7501441
ditto here

i like #3 best but i dont know how to do that in lightroom. i have to import from LR to photoshot and do that in layers. AM I MISSING SOMETHING HERE CAN THIS ACTUALLY BE DONE IN LIGHTROOM W/O SENDING IT TO CS3 ??

IF SO PLEASE POST,,WOULD SAVE ME SOME TIME

This was all quite by accident. First I started with the "wow" presets. I got these free from their website ononesoftware.com. Go to their site and download the presets. I used the "WOW-c-HSL-Only_brown" preset (you must be in the develop module). This desaturates everything but brown (and orange). (You can play around with the other presets to see the effect.)

Then, everything is B&W except for the orange poppy. Then I use the local adjustment brush tool to "paint" in "saturation", and reduced "exposure" on just the dew drop. This helps to put color back into the drop. Since the WOW preset desatauated most of the colors, you can go back the the HSL panel put saturation back into the photo (in my case blue, for the sky). If you see color begin to bleed into other parts of the photo, you can then go the local adjustment tools (in my case the used the gradient tool) in areas where the color bled back in, then slide the desaturation to zero.

Hope this helps. I just discovered all this by playing around. If you find better technique, please let me know.

-Wes