I love orchids, I can’t grow them mind you but I think they are one of natures most elegant flowers.  Olbrich Gardens in Madison, WI has a great orchid collection and I go there often to see what’s in bloom.  I photographed this grouping  a few years ago but unfortunately a bright sun and distracting background

There are a wide range of tools available to the photographer today that can be used to turn a poor photo into something quite nice if you take the time to learn how to use them.  This post will show you the workflow for how I completely changed the appearance of this image. To the left is

I never had a camera of any type growing up and neither did my parents so for the longest time I was oblivious to what I was missing. It wasn’t until the late 70’s, my early twenties when I was in college that I was first bitten by the bug. I had a couple of friends