First I have trouble with greens, now I have trouble with orange, you'd think I was trying to keep peace in Ireland.
Yesterday at lunch I got some shots of poppies. At first I wasn't totally thrilled by them, a lot of the detail in the orange seemed to have been lost, but I guess my quick 3AM wrangle on the photos did an OK job. Either that, or I accidentally optimized for my work monitor. http://flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157614462609199/ What do people do to shoot things like poppies where the subtleties are so easily lost? Do you underexpose to make sure that you don't blow out a channel? If so, by how much? Do you bracket, knowing that no matter what exposure you choose, it'll be wrong? Do you take care to shoot with light at a low angle, perpendicular to the camera? I asked a friend to help me with post processing a photo: She took this: http://flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/3313747724/in/set-72157614416872469/ and turned it into this: http://flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/3315340603/in/set-72157614416872469/ -- Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both subjects and verbs. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
