Posts in Category: cactus

5/5/2009

On May 5, 2009 by lightshedder With 0 Comments - cactus, close up, flowers, macro, Pic of the Day, Texas, wildflower
Prickly Pear

Prickly Pear

Prickly Pear cactus in bloom, near Kingsville TX. The challenge with PPC is always keeping the yellow from over saturating the sensor and clipping, so that you lose all detail in the highlights. For this quick shot while birding, I used -1.3 EV exposure compensation and then pulled exposure back up in Lr to get the effect I wanted, and maintain the full rich detail in the flower petals.

Also in Lr I cropped in from the left to improve comp0sition.

Sony DSC H50 full wide and macro. F5.6 @ 1/1000 @ ISO 100. Programed Auto with -1.3 EV compensation.

Added Exposure in Lightroom, Vibrance and Clarity. Landscape sharpen preset.

From Corpus Christi ABA.

12/10/2008

On December 13, 2008 by lightshedder With 0 Comments - cactus, close up, desert, wildflower
Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoenix AZ

Exotic Catus Blooms

This one caused a lot of discussion over on Digital_Photography_Forum. Thanks all. It was orginally posted like this, as it looks on Facebook.

 Commenters felt it was unbalanced because of the flower on the right. I went back and cropped it tighter, eliminating the flower on the right all together. Then I applied a bit of Fill Light in Lightroom to bring up the background and brightend the image overall to bring up the blossums. 

F5.6 @ 1/800 @ ISO 100. Programed Auto. Taken at the full telephoto position of the Sony DSC H9’s zoom, equiv. to 465mm.