My wife has Easter Lily's growing in the planter in the front yard. Every day I walk by them looking at the dew or sprinkler drops on them wondering how this or that would look in a photo. So yesterday I decided to go out and capture it and see what I could do.
This just happens to be one of the shots. First thing I thought of was it looked like a "Whales Tail". Sounded good enough for a title with a little twist on spelling. There really is no tail to go with this it just felt good for a catchy title.
The lighting is all natural light with some work done with an Orton Effect to make it glow more. The black background is just a black cloth that I bought a while back to use as a back drop on photo's like this. It worked really well and I was happy to have it. That with a ladder worked real well for a black back drop.
The Shot:
6 Photo's taken at different focal points for sharp image all the way through;
Combined in Photoshop /Auto Align/ Auto Blend
F/8.0, 1/100 Second, +1 EV, ISO 100, 24-105L lens with 25mm extension tube @90mm
Tripod, Ball Head and Shutter release used
Post Processing:
>All Photo's brought into photoshop-Each photo individually/Cmd A (Select All)/Cmd C (Copy)/Cmd W (Close)/Go to main photo file/ Cmd V (Paste)...repeat for all photos until one file holds all photo's as Layers
>Cmd Click on all photo's to select-/Edit Menu/Auto Align
>With all photo's still selected/Edit Menu/Auto Blend (Photo's blend with only the in focus parts of all files blended into one photo/Right Click/Flatten Image
>Adjustment Layer Curves for Contrast
>Adjustment Layer Hue/Sat for Yellows
>Orton Effect/Duplicate background twice (Layer 1 and Layer 1 Copy)/Select layer 1 Copy and change blending mode to Screen/With Layer 1 Copy still selected, right click and merge down/Select Layer 1/Filter/Gaussian Blur Radius 6-16/Right Click Blending Mode Multiply/Opacity to desired/Flatten Image
>High Pass Sharpen
>Cropped/Framed and sized for posting
http://en.flickeflu.com/photos/tony_d
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