31 Oct 12. Since my talk at the APAC Seminar was on how to improve any image with some creative editing, why not one for the group. Of course you've been seeing these "things" for several years now, but as they are what keep me having fun, let's do another. This began out as a straight picture of a hydrangea like flower to which I added a duplicate layer and then manipulated that layer to get a result that looked a bit like the petals had been electrified. I then blended that manipulated layer with the original normal layer by reducing the opacity of the manipulated layer to get the effect you see. Rather simple to do, but the hard part was deciding how much of the manipulation I want to affect the base image. In reality the manipulation took about 3 minutes, the decision for the final look was closer to half an hour. D300s; Aperture Priority; 18 - 200; ISO 400; 1/1000 sec @ f / 7.1.
