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Corona - Devilled Daisy III
Corona - Devilled Daisy III

Ox-eye daisy.

The question was how to create a fantabulous result for Sliders Sunday out of one of my daisy images…

Except it wasn’t, naturally. The real question was how to have fun playing with an average image that I am not going to use otherwise using Sliders Sunday as an excuse.

Corona is Latin for crown and appears in our languages all over the place - from Scandinavian kroner, Corona Borealis (the constellation), to solar coronas, Spanish beer and, of course, a family of viruses including colds and COVID which all are organisms that look like crowns. I thought it was an apt title in the circumstances!

I’ll post a link to an in-camera version in the first comment so you can see how far we came.

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)

[Handheld in daylight.
Developed in Capture One on auto.
Processed in Affinity Phot entirely on the iPad.
Cropped to 16:9 off-centre to give it some strength in the composition.
Image layer duplicated and blended with Linear Blend and blend ranges to protect the petals.
Depth of Field Blur to soften the petals and take out all the details there/Normal blend mode.
High Pass/Linear Light, aggressively to emphasise the centre lines.
Inpainting to remove spots and blemishes on the flower and sensor.
Minimum Blur adjustment/Normal blend mode. This is the first part of the magic as it creates blocky lumps in the centre of the flower.
HSL Shift Adjustment/Pin Light/63% opacity for a little bit more magic in the centre.
Posterise (24 colour levels)/Negation Blend/95% opacity. This was the second major part of the magic.
Maximum Blur adjustment/Multiply.
Merge result - layer effects to blue the edges
And we’re done :)]

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Taken on: June 8, 2020
Tags: Everybody's photos tagged with HSS HSS Everybody's photos tagged with Sliders Sunday Sliders Sunday
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Camera: Nikon Z 6, f/18.0, 1/400 sec, 105mm, ISO 640 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Nikon Z 6
Lens: Nikon AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
Aperture: f/18.0
Exposure Time: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length: 105mm
ISO: 640
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode: Auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Saturation: High
Sharpness: Hard
Color Space: Uncalibrated
Software: photools.com IMatch 20.5.0.6 (Windows)
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