3 Stages of a Hippeastrum flower.

This week's Saturday Self Challenge, SSC: Create your own triptych using the subject and processing of your choice.

After spending some considerable time yesterday looking at videos of how to create a triptych using Photoshop, and this morning taking 3 quick photos of 3 stages of a Hippeastrum flower, it took almost 2 hours to follow all the instructions from videos. I was so nearly giving up, but ...... here is the result.

I had another try with flowers in the garden. It was much easier to do second time around. The 3 garden flower photos are Narcissus obvallaris (the Tenby daffodil), Crocus tommasinianus which profusely seeds around the garden and Helleborus x hybridus (the Lenten rose).

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38 comments - The latest ones

Ulrich John ^club

Good idea and beautiful presentation, Amelia ! Great light and stunning colours !

6 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Ulrich John ^club

Thank you, Ulrich. I have just gone through the same process again with another 3 photos. It was a lot quicker the second time around.

6 years ago.

Marie-claire Gallet

Very beautiful, Amelia and CONGRATS !! I also wasted too much time in trying to do something. I made a triptych, but it took me hours,and after that I could not manage the following to post it. I give up !!!

6 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Marie-claire Gallet

I agree that there was some waste of time trying to do this, Marie-claire, but, because of the time I had already spent watching videos of the process yesterday, a dogged determination not to be beaten made me continue. It is, in fact, quite easy once one has got 3 good photos. I rushed the photographs though.

6 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club

Story of a flower. Well done*****

6 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club

Thank you Sami. Was it worth the effort? Well - at least I learned another skill. ;-)

6 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to Amelia ^club

I say it was. But what sound incredible is how lot of time it required. Although, I am quite experienced myself with a corresponding GIMP editor. For me it takes only little effort to do some simple collages.

6 years ago.

Chrissy ^club

einfach wunderschön

6 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Chrissy ^club

Thank you so much, Chrissy. I'll visit you soon, but have already spent too much time in front of a computer screen today. ;-)))

6 years ago.

aNNa schramm ^club

BRAVO !!!!

6 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to aNNa schramm ^club

Worth the time spent when I read your comment, Anna. Thank you. :-))))

6 years ago.

Edward Bowthorpe

Fantastic Amelia,eddie,xx

6 years ago.

Balatre

Le résultat méritait bien un peu de persévérance !
Photoshop est un excellent outil pour peu qu'on en connaisse les rudiments. Sinon, on se perd facilement et les tutos ne sont pas toujours à la hauteur.

6 years ago.

Annaig56 ^club

magnifique création,

6 years ago.

Rosalyn Hilborne ^club

A good challenge well interpreted Amelia.

6 years ago.

Ruebenkraut ^club

It worked out very well, Amelia!

6 years ago.

neira-Dan ^club

superbe !! vraiment réussi , et l'alternative n'est pas mal non plus

6 years ago.

Karen's Place ^club

Bravo for putting in such an effort, and like you said, you now have a new skill!

These are 2 very beautiful triptychs. It's so nice to see the flowers. :)

6 years ago.