Frank

A little color boost, over-sharpening and a flip.  Just for another look.!

Here is the overexposure:  to +5    (Not sure my solution changed much, but the look)

Greg, when boosting up the exposure to  drastically over-exposure,  I noticed the flowers where creating a shadow effect on a brighter background.  That seemed to be the issue of making the top part of your background not quite as black as the background directly behind the flowers.  Using selective color, linear light mode, increasing the cya…[Read more]

Love that pose!  Looks like she is ready to jump away.  Clicked the shutter just in time!  Very pleasing image.

What an amazing shot of wing detail.  What a bird.  Thanks for sharing these images, Tobie.

Ditto to all of the above!  Amazing looking bird.

Dramatic view.  I like the way you have the hiker centered in the frame.  Would not like to be hiking there in high winds!

Really nice image and I like the work you did to clone out the wires and lights, etc.

I had fun playing around with the colors in the original, reds, yellows, cyans, blue and I brought some more light to the very center, but not in the reflection,  thought it might be interesting to draw the eye all the way down the avenue.

I Like the mystery and the swirls.  How did you create or capture this?  What are the circular lights?  I really like them, so I tried to brighten them with a curves adjustment and a motion blur filter to get them spinning a bit. Then I cropped in  and down eliminating the outer blue windows.  I like also bright center.  Fun photo!

Hmmm……here is a quote from a recent Public TV program on bananas:

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What do Mona Lisa, Ice Cream and Goldfinger all have in common? They’re all varieties of bananas.

“Grown in more than 150 countries, it is widely believed there are more than 1,000 types of bananas in the world, which are subdivided into 50 groups. The most common is the C…[Read more]

Found this description of low key photography.

Beautiful, Greg.   (I usually associate Low Key with B&W images)

I love those reds!  To bring them out a bit more, use a Selective Color adjustment layer and increase the reds by lessening the cyans, then play with the opacity so not to over do it.  I also lightened the black background using Curves, but you might not want that shift.  I just…[Read more]

I see several stories!  Top and bottom are my favorites because of their colors.

Beautiful blues!

Yucca is similar to a potato…..

Me.too!  Lines and shapes.

VANITAS
A still life artwork which includes various symbolic objects designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the worthlessness of worldly goods and pleasures

Like the variety of the shapes and curves.   Here is a B+W radial gradient that brought contrast but maybe darkened side tables too much.

okay…last one…just added a copy of the green curves layer to increase the luminance of the green.