Tropical Hibiscus flowers

During July on Hole #3 of Lake Panorama National Golf Course, there was a wheel-barrel sitting alongside the tee box that had Tropical Hibiscus flowers planted it in. One evening while golfing, the setting sun was shining perfectly on the flowers. Knowing this would produce some great images; I got my Nikon D90, 18-105mm lense and Silk tripod and stopped golfing to take some photographs.

Wanting to try and get tack sharp images, I put the camera on my tripod and used LiveView on the D90. The nice thing about the LiveView on the D90 is you can zoom in a lot to find a certain part of the image that you want to focus in on. This was the first time I used LiveView so I was hoping for good results.

The images were processed in ViewNX as RAW files by adjusting the Picture Controls, White Balance, and a few other small items that RAW files allow you to change. Some of these images are duplicates of each other. One image is the RAW file that was processed into a TIFF. The other images were a TIFF file that was processed in PSE8. Using a number of copied layers of the same image, I adjusted the background image by using a plugin called virtualPhotographer. I then used the brush tool to allow some parts of these layers to show through while others didn’t. In the end, I have an image that combined a couple different images into one creating a very neat post processing effect. I then saved them as jpegs to upload them to this site.

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