Nik Software and a Daffodil

I was looking at a potted Daffodil setting in the window sill and liked the way the two flower heads were positioned and also liked the green leaves in the lower part, and thought this might make a nice vertical panorama look.

Here is the set up in my stairway where I have the best natural lighting.  It is really dark outside so not quite enough good light so pulled out my LED light to help out. I’m using one of my printed backgrounds.

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Photographed it with my Nikon D7000 and my Tamron 90m macro lens, with f/stop set at f/16.

Here is the original out of the camera and cropped like a vertical pano.

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Of course the only way to process now a days is with the Nik programs, and my first step is in the new Color Efex Pro 4.

I had no idea’s on what I wanted to do with this image, so just played with the different filters until something appealed to me.  I actually ended up using a few filters starting with the “Detail Extractor” and then hit “add a filter” and played with all the filters again until I decided I liked the soft dreamlike feel of the “Polaroid Transfer”.  Last and this is a first for me, I added a border in the “Image Borders” filter. Here it is.

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Next step was to go into Nik’s Viveza 2 and do just a little fine tuning, I adjusted the flower colors and brightness a little. I put a control point on the background and moved the “Structure” slider to the left to soften the background a little.

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After this I decided to play a little more and go back into Color Efex Pro 4 and see if anything else would look good. As I clicked on all the different filters I ended up liking the soft hazy look and the muted colors of the “High Key” Filter. Sometimes it’s just the way you feel at the time of the processing, some days I like the dark dramtic moody look and some days the soft dreamy less colorful look.  This is today’s mood.

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