Beautiful Poppy do, Larry. Jack
--- On Sat, 2/28/09, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> > Subject: Shooting orange > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 11:49 AM > 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. -- 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.
