Feb 21 2008
Valentine’s Day
It’s the one day every year specifically set aside to remind people to acknowledge their partner, and those special people in your life. Not that there should need to be a day for this, but considering how fast-paced life has become, I suppose we all need a reminder.
This year I had a lovely surprise - the first time I ever received flowers on Valentine’s Day (not counting the flowers my mother sent me one year when I was in high school… Yes, I realise how sad that sounds). Not just any flowers, but red roses…
Flowers are lovely to photograph - they’re so vibrant. Here are the roses I received, with a few different variations, courtesy of Photoshop:
The original - even though I love fiddling around with Photoshop, I have to keep a “control copy” - something to compare the alternatives with. Sometimes the adjustments look terrible, which becomes very obvious when compared to the untouched original version.
The first variation - black and white, with selected colour brought back through from the original photograph. This is a classic technique for flowers. I have a tendency to overdo the colour. Here I tried not to, but I think the red might still be a little too bright, against the black and white background.
The next variation - I went for another classic - not seen all that often in flora though. Sepia tends to be associated more with portraits, but I was curious to see how flowers would look in Sepia. Can’t say I’m the biggest fan of the result below. Maybe if I toned down the sepia a little, and brought through some of the colour of the roses from the original. It’s definitely different.
OMG, aren’t they lovely.
How interesting in the sepia.
Hey, it’s not sad about your mother sending you flowers - many do.
Better flowers sent with love than sent as a lie or cover-up.
Great story,
Cheers,
Gloria