My white ornamental Ginger Lily just started to bloom (9/24/15). I have been trying for days to get a good image but it has been raining for 3 days and windy. So, I am going with the best capture I could get. I shot these with native camera app for the iPhone 6. I did try to adjust exposure because of white blossoms. The image on the left was edited normally in PSE 11. The image on the right I wanted to try for an altered art effect. I cropped to a more square image and used the lighten/darken sliders, sharpened to the max to show more texture in the petals and give a more painterly appearance. I did not clone out the rain drops. As a result of the super sharpening the grass in the foreground and background became more pixelated. Too bad photography does not allow you to pass on the fragrance of these blossoms.
My white ornamental Ginger Lily just started to bloom (9/24/15). I have been trying for days to get a good image but it has been raining for 3 days and windy. So, I am going with the best capture I could get. I shot these with native camera app for the iPhone 6. I did try to adjust exposure because of white blossoms. The image on the left was edited normally in PSE 11. The image on the right I wanted to try for an altered art effect. I cropped to a more square image and used the lighten/darken sliders, sharpened to the max to show more texture in the petals and give a more painterly appearance. I did not clone out the rain drops. As a result of the super sharpening the grass in the foreground and background became more pixelated. Too bad photography does not allow you to pass on the fragrance of these blossoms.