White Hyacinth by dorothylee
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Here is another one from my friend’s garden. Here I wanted to retain more sharpness throughout the flowers than I usually do, but I still wanted the background to be soft and non-distracting. An aperture of F6.3 helped me achieve that goal. To set exposure, I metered off a nearby area that was in the same light as the flowers and underexposed by about 2/3 of a stop to avoid the whites from blowing out. Since the background was dark and the subject so light, this was enough to sufficiently darken the background. Only postwork necessary for this image was to add a tiny touch of contrast through levels and curves (this helped darken the background even a little bit further and more to my tastes.) I use manual exposure about 98% of the time. Getting it right in camera, manual exposure, and sometimes even manual focus…..geee, I’m so old school. Next thing you know I’ll be using film again…..NOT!
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Comments (21)
flora-crassella
wonderful image!!!!! Great photo!!!!!
Charberry
Beautiful! Very well presented. Excellent.
cfulton
Great work and info! Thanks, Clive
jeroni
Fanstastic photo
decie
wonderful image!!! excellent capture.
sandra46
WONDERFUL PIC!
durleybeachbum
I used to do ALL that with film! But now I'm strictly point and shoot I feel released from carrying all that gear. Beautiful pic!
AndreiR
All of your photos have this wonderful softness! Very beautiful!
lyron
Beautiful!!
timtripp
marvelous!
Hendesse
Wonderful colors and light. Looks very beautiful!
3x3
lovely capture x
CavalierLady
Very lovely and perfectly captured!
babuci
Wonderful white flower sister of the purple bunch from yestreday. Excelent capture.
MrsRatbag
What a beautiful capture!
Doriutz
Beautiful :)
moochagoo
Quite good composition !
furuta
Beautiful and clean color. wonderful capture!!
babuinodeoro
fantastic
ArtJosephNito
Another beauty! I love the moody ambiance on this.
danob
Beautifully done as always and the whites peeking out from the darker backgound is just right