I spent Saturday at the Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens in Baltimore with a great group of photographers from the NIH Camera Club. The enthusiastic group made the day fun and productive. Towards the end of the workshop, I was able to get some images from inside the Palm House. The blog image is a composite of a single image flipped in Photoshop CS5 to create symmetry. The palm leaf is backlighted, and the shadow pattern is from an arched Palm House window. To give the image greater impact, the left side was added.

Original image post-processed in Lightroom 3

The original image opened in Photoshop CS5, copied, canvas size doubled, and flipped horizontally. The two images were aligned using “difference” layer blending mode and missing parts filled in using “content-aware”.

Technical information: Aperture f/16; Lens Canon 28-300mm at 190mm; Camera Canon 7D, and ISO 100