What do people do to shoot things like poppies where the subtleties
are so easily lost?
I've learned to check the R G B channels in the histogram and adjust
exposure to prevent blowout in a given channel & the subsequent loss of
detail.
Had a devil of a time getting it right with red-winged blackbirds until I
made the above discovery.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Colen" <[email protected]>
Subject: Shooting orange
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/
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Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both subjects and
verbs.
Larry Colen [email protected]
http://www.red4est.com/lrc
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