This shot is from the 2018 Flower & Garden festival. The day was very cloudy and grey, but it works to give you nice soft light for shooting the topiaries.
Back again with another re-edit. The first image is the new 2021 edit and the second on is from 2012. The worst part of the original is the duplicated stars from a poor multi-image blend. Additionally, I lifted the shadows and killed the mood along with a bit too much saturation in the green. Overall, I think the new edit is far better.
I was recently going through a lot of older photos during a re-organization project and looking at the way I edited some (most?) of them left a lot to be desired. In most cases I’m talking about photos I edited between 5 and 10 years ago! So I thought it would be a fun project to redo a bunch of these photos and share the new edit along with the old one. I’m also recording some videos of the new edits along the way for my Youtube channel. These will mostly be commentary free and will allow you to simply watch me edit these photos. Maybe I’ll set it to some royalty free elevator music. I’ll make an announcement when the first one is released. The format for these will be the first photo is the new edit and the second one is the old edit. For this shot my initial edit was in 2013!