Stunning rows of tulips can be seen this time of year in various places in Holland. The iconic photograph that everyone wants is one where those colorful rows act as leading lines extending directly to a windmill. This exists, but it's hard to find because once tulips mature, farmers cut off the heads of the flowers so the plant energy is diverted to the bulbs instead of the showy flowers. It's painful to watch the buds being cut, but that's the reality. It's the bulbs the farmers harvest for sale. So, finding the perfect flower field in combination with a beautiful windmill is possible but unlikely. So, using Photoshop, I made it happen. I placed a windmill from the traditional village of Zaandam with rows of tulips using Photoshop. My settings for the foreground flowers were 1/160, f/22, and 2000 ISO. I used a 24-105mm lens for the shot, and then I replaced the original overcast, white sky with a sky from my files using the sky replacement command.
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