The Rules:
1. Lr Rule 5 - Enjoy

2. The Usual stuff:

All work must be done in either ACR or LR except for cropping, sharpening and using your noise filter. You can make some MINOR changes in PSE/CS3 if you want. If you use a preset, please list the name and a link to the source if you have that information. Also, if you'd like, please describe your workflow. [Or not, but fess up and tell us what you did.]

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Nice photos, Suzi. I enjoyed working on these. I didn't use any presets on these. I just played around with different settings, in particular the Luminance settings to make some of the colors darker.

Anita

Looks great, Anita. Thanks for playing, did you like my aphids on the rose!!! They weren't supposed to be there.

Suzi, I did have to look twice when I saw your little visitors on the rose. That rose looks like something I would grow. I have a very black thumb.

Anita

Geez, guys, were the images that bad this week??????????????????????????

No Suzi, It is scheduled for this evening... I am now busy with my first spring flowers shots. I'm just back from walking Titus in the Bois de Vincennes and sorting and organizing my pictures! I promise you to do your challenge, and I am sure it will be fun, as usual.

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Drastic changes including negative clarity. The effect was not strong enough: I opened in PSE and saved as TIFF, opened the TIFF as raw file and used 'last conversion' plus some other adjustments.

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Difficult one. I chose to enhance the sky.

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Very nice lighting!

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I did 2 conversions: one to optimize colors, the other to optimize tones in a desaturated version. In PSE I placed the color version in color mode over the black and one.