Study Group 5
Barbara E Miller, FPSA, PPSA











 
Barbara Miller
David Cooke
Mike Lillis
T W Woodruff
John Yurchak
Nick Muskovac
Nancy Conley
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January

Title "Orchid Fantasy"

How I did it: I made a new layer and cut out each orchid and moved the upper one slightly. Copied this one to make the three flowers on the new canvas.  Changed the opacity of each.  The BG is a combination of the colours in the flower used with the gradient tool.


 


COMMENTS:
 
David Cook

There’s a lovely dreamy quality to this image, Barbara which I find very attractive. You’ve transformed a good Orchid photograph into a work of art. I do find the ghostly flower in the top right hand corner a little distracting and, whilst odd numbers are generally regarded a good, in this case I think it might be even better with just the two main flowers. If you did that though, I think a little should be cropped off the top to make the top and bottom borders the same.





 


Mike Lillis
I like how you blurred the background using the same hue from the flowers.  Although having so much background takes away from image.  See the attached changes I make to your image by cropping and sharping just center of each flower.





T W Woodruff
John Yurchak

 I like the dream like effect you have done with this photo. The center of the flowers are sharp and the rest have a nice soft focus on the petals. B/G color and flowers work well together.







Nick Muskovac

I love the colors, composition, and softness in this image;  the background blends in very nicely;  I can’t think of any way to improve it; well done.
 



Nancy Conley


The muted color tones and delicate softness of the flowers is well done.  The only thing I think I might change is to crop a bit more off the bottom.





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Member Bio
 

Barbara E Miller- Biography

Born in England and now residing in Florida Barbara has been a member of PSA since 1983.  She took over the Electronic Study Groups when they numbered 5 and has served in a number of capacities for PSA. Director for Region 8 for 5 years; Chairperson of the Photo Travel Division Travel sets and Travelettes for 7 years; Chairperson of the EID PSA exhibition for 4 years and Tropical Image Exhibition 9 years.  On the local front served as president of the Delray Camera Club and a member of the board of directors of the Boynton Beach Camera Club, serving as PSA rep for them as well as the Photographic Arts of South Florida. Numerous judging of international exhibitions and local clubs.
5 galaxies in CPID, 5 stars EID, 4 stars Small Print Division, 4 stars Nature Division, 4 stars Photo Journalism Division and 4 stars Photo Travel Division; recently received the honour of MPSA.

Her camera equipment is Canon and a Lumix  Panasonic point and shoot; favourite subjects are table top and flowers.

 


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