Feeling Artsy

Yesterday, I was in an artsy mood.  I had taken some pictures of Black-eyes Susan that were flowering at my condominium and decided to see what different ways I could process them that was pleasing to me.  My steps were to first take the original:






Then I applied my basic settings:

Next adjusted the basic settings:

Exported the picture into Topaz photoFXlab, open the plug-ins, utilized Clarity and then added Detail in re-imported the picture back into Lightroom

I then used copies of that picture to run a number of different filters on it to give me many different results from natural, surreal to impressionistic.

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