I generally don't spend that much time working on the images that I post - you may, or may not find that surprising. However, I spent what seems like endless amounts of time over several evenings mucking about with this one.
This is probably because the initial idea that I had for this image didn't work, for reasons that I'm not entirely clear on. The intention was that it would be a monochrome image set against a dark background, a la Edward Weston.
Anyway, I created the layer mask - which took an age and I ended up painting the thing, which I try to avoid - did the conversion and fiddled with Curves, but I just couldn't make it work. So, I sampled the image to produce the background colour, pushed the saturation a bit, here we are.
I should say that the photograph was taken mid afternoon in our garden against a white background. I suspect that this is the problem - what the image really needs is raking light to boost the contrast and define the texture of the flower better. Still, we live and learn, I suppose.
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