Fennel is considered a weed in many places but I don't mind it in my garden. I love it for it's wonderful towering flower stalks and seedheads, it's lovely soft ferny foliage, it's aniseed fragrance and flavour.
At one time I'd have avoided the power-pole or cloned it out, but I like the juxtaposition of shapes and forms here.
Processing was fairly simple
Algae @ multiply 100% I used the patch tool to get rid of some of the grunge spots from the texture that I felt were distracting. This texture layer provided most of the green colour and some of the vignetting.
Tarte Tatin@ Soft Light 54%
Selective colour adjustment layer where I tweaked the neutrals a bit.
The photo at this stage looked okay but I wanted to add some drama so I merged visible Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E and added a render lighting effects filter layer, and tried several different "lights" before I settled on what you see here.
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3 comments:
Paul:
First of all, I love fennel, my grandmother's garden had it all over the place. Good decision to leave the pole in the photo, it brings both contrast and mystery (and a reminder that not all visual "junk" is neccesarily bad). As I wrote in another comment, I'm working on how to be more subtle with your textures, and photo-manitpulation in general. You've done it again, showing the way!
Tom
Tom,
Sorry, Plants are Jill's domain!
I uploaded this for Jill as she is away for the weekend! :-)
Hehehe, I keep getting it wrong. Anyway. I really like how you all manage to add "just a touch" with your textures.
Tom
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