I always seem to be going in the wrong direction, or at least, opposite traffic. While most photographers seem to be going “hotter” — more saturation and stronger colors — I’m trying for soft pastels.
I am forever turning down the heat. Lowering saturation and brightness. I kind of like it cool rather than hot.
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MAY’S LAST ON THE CARD(S) 
MAY 2024 – THE CHANGING SEASONS 
FLOWERS IN AND OUT 
SUNSHINE THIS MORNING 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
Beautiful, beautiful flowers, thank you so much, Marily.
Leslie
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Flowers from Garry? LarBear has so many wonderful habits, but this is one I wish he would pick up! 🙂
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They’re very pretty, whatever they are 🙂
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I blame Photoshop. But just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. I have a friend who has been for years making his work more and more intense, now to the point where it’s almost painful. I suspect, since he is near my age, he may also be having the start of cataracts, which can fade your colors out without you even realizing it.
I too like the softer, “realer’ images, closer to what’s out there. If I have to tweak a picture I don’t go beyond what looks natural…and yours do, indeed, look natural. Lovely shots, as always.
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Thanks. It’s harder, I think, to NOT make everything more intense. Turning it up is so easy with the current software. I think an awful lot of us over-process everything in a well-meaning attempt to make it better.
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Somehow the cooler colors seem more real than the ones that have been intensified — I like them cool, too! These are lovely!
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Thank you. I don’t know why everyone is turning up the heat so high. It seems to be the current fashion.
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Like judyt54 above, I was going to add a comment about cataracts. I’m likely to have surgery this year, and I understand that colors become more intense when there’s not a cataract in front of the eye’s lens to dull them. As we all age, I wonder if the trend to turn up the heat will suddenly reverse itself!
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Garry had that surgery 10 years ago (younger than most), so he can see like an eagle from a distance, but has to wear glasses to see anything close up. But he’s got the eyes of a fighter pilot. I have a hint of cataracts, but it’s been that way for more than a decade. So far, so good.
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