Tulips At Home

Pine Hill, NJ

Since we bought our home we are constantly planting tulips. I love them and Bill knows this. He is always adding more bulbs in our gardens. It makes it easy to photograph tulips when you have your own garden to go to. Some people take offense at a photographer squating down in front of their flower bed and taking a closeup of a tulip.

In this image I cropped not with the camera but the computer. It gave the tulips a softer focus. I then used contrast and brightness to get the exposure I was looking for. I find that working with my images on a computer as opposed to a dark room seems to give the images a look of a painting. A question. Does this make my images a photograph or an illustration?