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Now you mention it, it does look a bit yellow. I did increase the saturation by a smidgen in yellow and green. However I check that I haven't overdone things by turning the layer on/off and I recall thinking that the layer did virtually nowt. I'll recheck.

It didn't cross my mind that it was a rebirth, a never ending cycle, because I mentally compared it with the previous sunflower field which was in full bloom.

If you look closely the little one is looking a bit tatty, perhaps that is a bit of recompense for being the weedy one, you get to gloat over the big'uns in the end.
 

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I've checked the original and the workflow and the colour saturation is difficult to see.

See what you think here (link)

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Ummm.

It appears to be the curves layers that is affecting the colour.

I had one curves layer to 'brighten' the image up, and another to darken the corners/vignette.
 

Rex, if you are in Photoshop, I think the solution to that is to switch the blending mode from 'normal' to 'luminosity'. This should stop the curve changing colours.

I haven't used PS curves on a colour shot for a long time, so I might be wrong, but there is definitely a way of stopping curves changing colours.
 

I just cannot believe how yellow it looks now!

I found three check boxes in Options in curves. It is now on 'increase per channel contrast'

However I now think I don't know what I'm doing because it behaves in an unexpected way!

I have used the same curve with the other setting and get this. (link)
 

Without seeing anything else I would have been relatively happy with your first post here. Sunflower leaves tend to the yellow end of green. Seeing the bluer one, I would suggest putting the more yellow image on top of the blue one and reducing opacity until (very subjectively) it looks right! In any event, if it was evening light then, again, your post looks OK colour-wise. I like the bowed head effect gradually getting more blurred into the background. Knowing that there is a staggering of ripening by plants in proximity lets me make sense of the ones that are still in flower. The title is more closely associated with Speaker's Corner at Hyde Park than a field of sunflowers! Overall, the photo is moving into harvest festival mode and is a month or two off losing the colours so this is a faithful rendering of late Summer/early Autumn.
 

The saturated yellows and greens don't bother me, but the composition just doesn't pop. I've noticed this with many of my own foliage photos; the similarity between the foreground subject and the background limits the effecitiveness of the selective focus.
 

I think I prefer the original. Anyways...

A better interpretation than the previous sunflower shot. All the heads bowed in reverence of the last remaining full bloom. The two other late bloomers in the back are on tiptoes to see what the commotion is about. Not sure about the rougue grass in the front bottom. Also, a little more of the bottom middle droopy bloom would be appreciated.

I like this a lot and a cut above the ubiquitous shot.