One Four Challenge; Hanging Blossom

The one four challenge is where you take one picture and over a month each week edit the picture in a different way.  At the end of the month you have four different images and four different interpretations of the image. You can read more about the challenge here.

This month I have chosen a nice spring image to edit now spring is in full spring here. the blossom is just hanging on the tree, so I snapped a few shots. I think this image can go a few different ways which is great for this challenge.

I did a basic edit this month. I applied my Provia preset in Lightroom to get the nice strong greens and slightly creamy feel. The left side of the image was blown out, I have a another version of the image where there is more detail in the background and it is quite distracting. I adjusted the aperture to have a shallower depth of field which blew out the background more removing that detail. To stop it from feeling empty I added a gradient on the right side of the image and used the brush to remove the blossom from the gradient. I added a slight split with blue in the highlights to create some colour contrast against the browner orange tones.

What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.
Also remember to check out Robyns post for this week.

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