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I have taken this photo of Orchid flowers last week . Please review and inform the suggestions
| Brand: | Panasonic |
| Camera: | Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ15 |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 27 Aug 2008 - 6:54 PM |
| Focal Length: | 34.2mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/3.3 |
| Aperture: | f/4.8 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/80sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 250 |
| Exposure Mode: | Program AE |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | Off, Did not fire |
| White Balance: | Auto |
| Title: | Orchid |
| Username: | 
bglimaye |
| Uploaded: | 19 Nov 2012 - 10:07 AM |
| Tags: | Flowers & plants |
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Hi BG, - perhaps you used a vivid mode on the camera to cause these flowers to be over saturated. Its quite a good shot apart from that. Over saturation can cause a loss of detail as the colours bleed across pixels.
The mods Ive uploaded will likely look quite dull in comparison, - mod2 has more colour, but without an original unprocessed file its difficult to get them correct. You might see that the "veins" in the petals are more distinct in the less saturated mods.
A good shot overall, - just take care with saturation.
regards
Willie
Well yes a nice vivid shot of a photogenic flower. However to me it is a little busy and maybe shooting just a sprig of the flowers might have been a better idea. An example is on page 2 of my portfolio.
I do think that with flower heads, less is often better. I also find, despite my example mentioned, that three heads are mostly better than two. (I thought my example of three heads with orchids was within my portfolio but it isn't, which is a pity from the example point of view.)
So maybe a bit of photographic gardening to segregate a few heads, temporarily mind you and no permanent damage caused, is the way to go.
Frank
I agree with Frank. Look around the plant and choose a little group that is nicely clustered together, so that you won't be showing too much background. Then make sure that your background isn't going to clash with your chosen specimens. Ideally, place some black card behind them, isolating them from everything else. Here is a nice example from a member of this site. He simply used window light to illuminate the orchid.
Also, you will find tips of Flower Photography here and here.
Pamela.
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