Coneflowers are one of my favorite flowers to photograph. They have great structure and bright colors that make for a great flower photograph as an isolated subject. The photo above was taken in bright sunlight at F/4 with the Canon EF 135MM F/2L lens. Because of the bright sunlight, the colors were a bit washed out and the overall photograph was not very interesting. However, I liked the structure of the background flowers and stems that were showing through and I decided to process this image to highlight those features.

The post process was completed with Tonality CK and Photoshop 2018. I used Tonality CK to do the initial color processing then used layers in Photoshop to dodge & burn various features of the photo.

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