Some flowers

[Alaun]

with too much of the the detail slider?



 

[Jakov Minić]

not if you like it like this
whenever i pump up the details i ruin the background, hence i make them blurry all together

[pluton]

It's a good shot, with an interesting treatment....you dropped the luminance of the yellow/orange, right?

[Alaun]

Thanks Jakov and Pluton,

yes, I like it, it is somehow catching

yellow/orange: no special color treatment, only highlights reduced

basically, the detail effect comes from using the detail slider from ACR/PS twice (as you can do now with PSCC)

[Bjørn Rørslett]

In my eyes, this treatment is not becoming the flower heads well. Double blur lines and black halos rarely add positively to an image no matter what the subject is. You might try to achieve some of the local sharpening in a more refined manner.

[Alaun]

ok, yes, now I see, the "effect" -how the picture looks- does come from double blur lines.

The "original" treatment was a bit different as shown below in second picture

I have also checked again, what I did with the highlights/luminance of the yellow: actually the picture was taken a bit underexposed to avoid blown highlights, so I just increased the exposure a bit in ACR, avoiding the highlight indicator going red as the first picture without treatment shows (third picture)

(?How do I get the pictures within the text here?)