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These are blooming in the backyard, so bright and colourful, I tried to capture in with my makeshit studio. I wasn't sure how to PP it, so here is a first 2 minute attempt. I wanted to make the black blacker, but didn't know how without affecting the blooms.

Please give me feedback of any sort.

Looks pretty good to me Craig... You could make the black blacker without affecting the blooms by using an adjustment layer...

but there's really no need to be quite to derogatory about your studio...

Alpha_7 wrote:I tried to capture in with my makeshit studio.

 ROFL John!

Craig, you're on the verge (perhaps past it) of losing detail in all the red, given the D70's characteristic oversaturation of the reds. A bit of wide-radius USM for a contrast 'pop' mightn't go astray here.

MCWB wrote:ROFL John!

Craig, you're on the verge (perhaps past it) of losing detail in all the red, given the D70's characteristic oversaturation of the reds. A bit of wide-radius USM for a contrast 'pop' mightn't go astray here.

I agree here as all the detail in the "gum blooms?" have been lost. But looking closely at the photo I am unsure of what you could achieve with further processing! Have you cropped these fairly tightly?

Cheers

Scott

Alpha_7 wrote: I tried to capture in with my makeshit studio.

Craig, I'm sure you didn't type that. Obviously a new word has been added to the annoying word changer.
Gee, I dunno if I shoulda said that, it might start another string of posts.

Makeshit was a freudian-slip but I got a good laugh at John's quick pick up.

And it was my own typo... not the infamous word censor.

The shot above was taken with the 70-300G and my softas wide-angle adapter, I will tweak it some more to get the detail back it it..