Ivy Leaf Universe
It’s a long while since I have submitted anything to Macro Mondays, but I’ve often found leaf vein patterns interesting so I couldn’t resist this week’s theme of Leaf
This specimen was picked a year or two ago and pressed in a flower press, along with a lot of flowers from my garden. The advantage of doing this is that it flattens the subject making it much easier to focus across the extent of the thing. The image was taken today.
This portion of variegated ivy (which grew up a fence by my patio) has retained its colour pretty well over the intervening months. I also tried processing it in monochrome which really brings out the venation, but I preferred the pretty colour version here.
You can also play spot-the-(dried)-insect. There are at least two I have seen...
The leaves are really quite small and the image is less than three inches across as befits the MM brief.
The title I blame on a friend of mine who tends to favour puns in them… I fear it might be catching :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays :)
[Backlit with LED lightbox; tripod; delayed shutter; VR off; manual focus.
Developed in Capture One to take out the background warm and green the colour temperature.
Processed in Affinity, rotating to get the left stalk more or less vertical; square crop.
Curves in LAB mode to strengthen colours mildly. High Pass/Linear blend sharpening with a little Unsharp Mask as well. No vignette.]
Ivy Leaf Universe
It’s a long while since I have submitted anything to Macro Mondays, but I’ve often found leaf vein patterns interesting so I couldn’t resist this week’s theme of Leaf
This specimen was picked a year or two ago and pressed in a flower press, along with a lot of flowers from my garden. The advantage of doing this is that it flattens the subject making it much easier to focus across the extent of the thing. The image was taken today.
This portion of variegated ivy (which grew up a fence by my patio) has retained its colour pretty well over the intervening months. I also tried processing it in monochrome which really brings out the venation, but I preferred the pretty colour version here.
You can also play spot-the-(dried)-insect. There are at least two I have seen...
The leaves are really quite small and the image is less than three inches across as befits the MM brief.
The title I blame on a friend of mine who tends to favour puns in them… I fear it might be catching :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays :)
[Backlit with LED lightbox; tripod; delayed shutter; VR off; manual focus.
Developed in Capture One to take out the background warm and green the colour temperature.
Processed in Affinity, rotating to get the left stalk more or less vertical; square crop.
Curves in LAB mode to strengthen colours mildly. High Pass/Linear blend sharpening with a little Unsharp Mask as well. No vignette.]