Flowers

[LouiseTopp]

Here are a few flower shots, hope they are OK?

[xpatUSA]

The rose and the sunflower are gorgeous!

Sorry to say that all the rest are very badly over-saturated. That's where those purples are coming from.

Do you still have raws or OOC neutral JPEGs?

[LouiseTopp]

They were shot in jpeg, I probably did go a bit mad over the other one's.

[IzzieK]

Welcome back to CiC...'been awhile since you were here...

Anyway, I am with Ted here. I also prefer the rose #4 and the sunflower #6 shots. My second place is #2 shot the blue flower...the rest is very hurting to the eyes...just my say here...

[LouiseTopp]

Thanks will be posting other image's I took recently

[xpatUSA]

They were shot in jpeg, I probably did go a bit mad over the other one's.

Never mind, eh? Some will tell you that JPEGs are cast in stone but even your red rose shots are recoverable to an extent:



Here's how:



It's RawTherapee but your editor should have equivalents. Look under History at left: First step was to reduce saturation a bit but there was still a purple-ish hue here and there.

Then I played with the 3-channel color mixer and looked at the histogram whilst so doing. The numbers mean that I reduced both the red and blue from the red channel. I left the green channel alone. And I took some blue out of the blue channel.

Then I cropped it and saved as sRGB JPEG 65% quality.

Not bad, eh?

Can your editor show you a three-color RGB histogram?

[Geoff F]

Real life flower photography is so difficult, Louise.

Try to avoid direct sunshine and meter around the scene to work out your best exposure settings. Use exposure compensation when required.

Be aware of the background. Should it be well focused into the scene or blurred out completely? When necessary, do a bit of tidying up in the background before shooting.

Sometimes, a bit of fill flash can help to prevent harsh shadows; but on other occasions it will just add to various other problems.

The main thing to remember is that there aren't any firm rules, so keep trying different options on the same scene.

[Shadowman]

Nicely series.