Flowers on Black on a July evening

I set up black velvet against a trifold support and placed my camera on a tripod in front of this.  Several flowers from the garden were the subjects for the afternoon photo shoot. The sun was low around 6:30 and provided a warm glow to the day lilies, daisies, and petunias.  Here are some macro shots, some without adjustment and others with Photoshop artistic adds.

Magnificent Coral Peonies

My friends in Lansing have an exquisite selection of peonies, both regular and tree peonies.  My favorite is the coral peony that is magnificent in display each year.  Here are a couple shots from this week, one of which was an unadjusted image while the others were "played with" in Photoshop.

Montages of Six Mile Creek Plants

My artistic bent is to play with the digital images to produce montages that are artistically pleasing to me.  The process is done in Photoshop, but can be done with any software.  It involves extracting portions of a digital image and arranging the portions on the digital canvas in Photoshop.

The Photoshop software is powerful and I feel I have just scratched the surface of the learning curve.  I find it rewarding to develop new skills each time I use Photoshop.

Here are some montages I produced from the digital images I took on my walk last week. Would love any response and opinions.

The montages below, in order of presentation, are of Blood Root, Marsh Marigold, Ferns and Skunk Cabbage, Hellebore, Jack in the Pulpit, Skunk Cabbage, and Red Trillium.

Water Lily Montage

This afternoon, the water lilies were looking very lovely in the soft sunlight.  I took several pictures of them with varying exposures and obtained a couple that I like.  With the help of Photoshop, I manipulated the images to produce this montage.  Tell me what you think of it.