Tag: plum blossom

Blossoms emerging

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Pink plum blossoms starting to emerge.

Some early blossoms emerging. These ornamental plum blossoms are the first fully blooming ones I’ve seen this year.They emerge at different times from year to year, so I hypothesize that they are triggered by temperatures more than hours of light. But it could be some combination. Hopefully they won’t be nipped in the bud by a sudden cold snap.

Plum blossoms emerging.
First out of the gate.
The first blossoms for this year.
Plum blossoms emerging.

For Wordless Wednesday and Cee’s Flower of the Day.

The photos were taken with my Sony RX10iv camera, F/4 and ISO 100. I used Raw Therapee, the radiance filter in Topaz Studio 2 and the GIMP to process these photos. My basic workflow.

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Plum blossom in Black and White

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For Brashley Photography’s Mid-week Monochrome, a harbinger of spring the plum blossom, in black and white. I guess the raindrops are also a harbinger of spring!

Black and white photo of a plum blossom, converted using Raw Therapee.
Plum blossom in black and white.

This image was taken with my Sony RX10M4: F2.4, 8.8mm, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/125s. I processed it in Raw Therapee, then cropped and resized it and added a vignette in the GIMP.

I used Raw Therapee to do the conversion to Black and White. Specifically, the Channel Mixer method in the Black and White tool under the Colors tab. The preset was Absolute ROYGCBPM. Applying a special effect to the magenta and sliding down the green gamma setting. For information about how to use that tool check out this post: Black and White Digital Photo Processing-Part 2: Using Raw Therapee.

Both Raw Therapee and the GIMP are open source software (free!).

Original color image:

Original color image of the plum blossom, which was converted to black and white.

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