Orchid For A Grey Day
We had an orchid bloom given to us from a bouquet that was being discarded. This bloom was still quite nice so I placed it in a small vase. On a very grey day, I set the configuration up near a window and played around with the composition until I got this. But I never processed the resulting image. Until now. It has been so depressing dull for too many days, a bit of colour was in order. I dug through my files, pulled this out and had my way with it. Brightened my day considerably. - JW
Date Taken: 2014-10-26
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 macro lense, focused in Live-View, ISO100, Aperture priority mode, f/8.0, 1 sec with and EV+0.33 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee: adjust shadow and highlight settings to recover maximum highlight detail, boost black level very slightly, apply auto colour balance, apply very slight saturation boost, apply noise reduction and sharpen. PP in free Open Source GIMP: crop to square format, make very slight adjustment to tone curve to set black point, sharpen, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, scale to 1800 wide for posting.
Orchid For A Grey Day
We had an orchid bloom given to us from a bouquet that was being discarded. This bloom was still quite nice so I placed it in a small vase. On a very grey day, I set the configuration up near a window and played around with the composition until I got this. But I never processed the resulting image. Until now. It has been so depressing dull for too many days, a bit of colour was in order. I dug through my files, pulled this out and had my way with it. Brightened my day considerably. - JW
Date Taken: 2014-10-26
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 macro lense, focused in Live-View, ISO100, Aperture priority mode, f/8.0, 1 sec with and EV+0.33 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee: adjust shadow and highlight settings to recover maximum highlight detail, boost black level very slightly, apply auto colour balance, apply very slight saturation boost, apply noise reduction and sharpen. PP in free Open Source GIMP: crop to square format, make very slight adjustment to tone curve to set black point, sharpen, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, scale to 1800 wide for posting.