Caution...bee at work!

Between some of this' and a lot of 'that' today..I grabbed 20mins in the park!


Caution..bee at work! by Sharon Reid2010, on Flickr

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Azalea by Sharon Reid2010, on Flickr

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IMG_3339 by Sharon Reid2010, on Flickr

I like shot 1, 2 the best, I love the colour of that third plant.

Thank you so much Ken.

That last one's my fave Daisy

Beautiful set here Daisy. My one change would be to selectively add more detail to the bee in the first frame. Example:

Thank you Azz..it is in my garden so I am recording it's progress.

Yes, Bob..I have been trying to do exactly that on photoshop Elements 8 for half an hour.

Can you tell me how you achieved it please?

Cheers!

Duplicate the layer, in blend modes select screen, apply a mask and, using a black brush, paint away everything but the bee. Merge all layers. Repeat this procedure one more time to get the bee light enough to bring out detail. Merge all layers and you've got my edit. On the second pass I cut the black brush to 50% opacity to lighten the shadowed portion of the flower that needed some fill light. I hope you're able to do all this in Elements. I used CS5 Photoshop.

Thank you for that Bob.

I have Elements 8 and tried to accomplish the same thing. I didn't see any mask capability so I used the eraser between layers instead. It's much more tedious work. Here's a quick version edited by Elements. 8.