A Crushing Beauty

Pressing and scanning leaves and flowers is a great way to capture sharp detail with a diffuse light source. For these images below, I also used a crumpled tissue (clean) for a background. Then, lots of photo manipulation with Gimp.

The first image uses a clump of clematis leaves. And I only added the grey circle afterward with Gimp.



In the triptych, there is a branch from a Fine Line buckthorn, plus a few crabapple blossoms and the same clematis leaves as above. With the scanner, it's easy to create quick studies in composition. The middle and right panels are relatively undoctored, but the left panel is a composite of the other two with color adjustment.