Flora as Art...

[PKM-UK]

A few recent(ish) re-edits...

Shot raw in Hartshill Country Park, Warwickshire, England and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite/ Nik Collection, Adobe Lightroom Classic/ Photoshop and Topaz Labs Studio 2.

Phil

Double vision...

• Canon EOS R5
• RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
• 223.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 1000

Somewhere out there...

• Canon EOS R5
• RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM
• 163.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 250

Together forever...

• Canon EOS R5
• EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 640

 

[jdeb]

These are all worthy of hanging on a wall. I like the frames added, wish I knew how to do that.

 

[PKM-UK]

Hi John,

Cheers, much appreciated!

I’ll let you into a secret (if you promise not to tell anyone else… ), the frames are added using Topaz Labs Studio 2 and our logo/ signature is Custom Brush (meaning I can change colour/ size/ opacity), created in Photoshop. This step-by-step YouTube video by Anthony Morganti will show you how.

I don’t think you can buy Studio 2 now (Topaz Labs ceased development) - a pity as it‘s one of my favourite creative programs - but Dave Kelly provides purchase links on his YouTube channel (not sure if these are active - but worth a try?).

There are probably other programs/ techniques for producing similar results, but this is how I do it.

Phil

 

[Hali]

A few recent(ish) re-edits...

Shot raw in Hartshill Country Park, Warwickshire, England and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite/ Nik Collection, Adobe Lightroom Classic/ Photoshop and Topaz Labs Studio 2.

Phil

Double vision...

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Somewhere out there...

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Together forever...

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These are just beautiful. I love the shallow depth of field and the dreamy look! They are indeed works of art. I need to look at my Topaz Studio 2 and see about reinstalling it. I didn’t know they did frames. Thank you for the information!

 

[PKM-UK]

These are just beautiful. I love the shallow depth of field and the dreamy look! They are indeed works of art. I need to look at my Topaz Studio 2 and see about reinstalling it. I didn’t know they did frames. Thank you for the information!

Hi Hali,

Cheers - appreciated!

Yes, 'Digital Frame' is one of the Filters in Studio 2. I've saved a couple of my favourite configurations as 'Looks', so it takes but a couple of clicks to apply.

(I'd like to claim it was incredibly difficult and techy, but Studio 2 makes it ridiculously simple... ).

Phil

 

[YangMills]

A few recent(ish) re-edits...

Shot raw in Hartshill Country Park, Warwickshire, England and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite/ Nik Collection, Adobe Lightroom Classic/ Photoshop and Topaz Labs Studio 2.

Phil

These are all great but I particularly like the first one. I love the way the oof background is rendered and contains motion blur. I assume this is a composite of two shots? Very attractive pictorially.

 

[PKM-UK]

These are all great but I particularly like the first one. I love the way the oof background is rendered and contains motion blur. I assume this is a composite of two shots? Very attractive pictorially.

Hi Yang,

Cheers - appreciated!

The ’two shot’ effect in the first image was produced in Nik Collection using the ‘double exposure’ filter. I can’t recall what else I did in processing this, but it was taken on a frosty morning which helped with the dreamy/ pastel feel of the composition.

Phil

 

[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

And there was me thinking that Flora was something you spread on toast...

;-)

 

[micheric]

Phil, the are absolutely stunning photos, I really like the first one the best, regardless of how it was processed, the final photo you produced is beautiful.

 

[PKM-UK]

And there was me thinking that Flora was something you spread on toast...

;-)