Ornamental Grass - Green & White

Ornamental grass can provide textures to an image.  I did not want to take a picture of the standard upright look with sky etc.  This one I was looking down from the top to the middle of some stalks for a different perspective. You can see some close up details of the fronds. iPhone 5c, do not know if HDR on.  Edited with PSE 11.  Did Quick Fix, then enhanced green color under color variation as wanted to get rid of yellow color cast in the midtones.  

Rust #2 Dumpster

2nd image of rust on a dumpster in downtown GSO, NC.   This rust image reminded me of grass when I looked at in on the computer monitor. The orignal image was muted colors of the image on the left with less texture.   I edited in PSE 11 using sliders for light and dark, midtones to get the effect I wanted.  Then I sharpened to 100.  I further enhanced the colors by using Saturated Film effect x2.  The image on the right I wanted to try to work with Vintage effect in PSE 11. Using the edited image on the left,  I played with hue and saturation and wanted more orange/red tones than browns. It ended up as a monochrome.  I should have left more space at the top when I took the image. I will be revisiting this dumpster if the sun ever shines.  If I get desperate, I can always make my own rust by watching You Tube videos.   .

Ornamental Grass and Clouds in Sky

I am way behind in my posting due to attending a Photo Fest in Asheville, NC .Image should have been posted Thurs., Sept. 10th. There were clouds in the sky last week and I noticed some grass in the parking lot near IHOP restaurant. It was very windy but bright sun, and I think this imaged turned out with the effect I wanted.  I definitely did not want the McDonald's sign in the image, So it was cropped to square format. Camera+ HDR.  Edited in PSE 11 with minimal editing.  Hope to find more grasses/weeds to photograph along roadsides this fall.

Ornamental Red Grass in Median at Reynolda Village, W-S, NC 8/29/2015

T his image should have been posted Sept. 6th, 2015.  I took this image of the red grass that was part of a median landscape at Reynolda Village in Winston-Salem, NC. I do not know the name of this cultivar. I wanted to just capture the grass but it was blowing in the breeze and  had coleus, banana plants, elephant ears in this same area. Depending on the angle, you could get parked cars too. The good thing was it was overcast when I took the image.  I had gone to a Paw Paw Festival and bought one these plants for my garden.  Camera+ app, edited the highlights, midtones, sharpened & applied slight vignette PSE 11.