FLOWER FALL; & LEANING TO THE LIGHT

The source pic for "Flower Fall" (5-18-15 026v4) is from that batch of 50 pix I took a few days ago. (As is the other pic below.) As I fooled with various crops for this source pic I kept being drawn to the visual relationship between the lines of those palm fronds and the blossom beneath it. Ergo, I isolated them to (hopefully) bring that out. I also converted to black and white because it can sometimes very nicely emphasize contrasts. And all those curves, and lights and shadows seemed to cry out for emphasis. BTW, converting to black and white is not necessarily as simple as it may sound. There are various ways to accomplish it, each highlighting and de-emphasizing in different ways. And as is my usual wont, I then increased the contrast a little bit once I settled on a result I liked.

With both "Flower Fall" above, and "Leaning to the Light" (5-18-15 008v2) below, in addition to increasing contrast I decreased the midtones a bit. Which had the effect of further increasing contrast (without losing detail in the very light areas), and darkening the background some:

I also did a bit of "painting out" of distracting areas on both these pix. I so wish a mouse were more amenable to control. But at least today I had the patience to deal with a mouse's somewhat mulish behavior.

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