Orange Lily After A Rainfall
As I hobble about trying to find photographic subject matter distance from my home base, I spent a bit of time looking at the flowers in my garden. After a brief rainfall, some of the classic July orange lilies provided an opportunity although not without some significant shifting around trying to fine an angle that isolated the three I wanted. A sure sign of it being mid-July here in Grimsby. - JW
Date Taken: 2022-07-05
(c) Copyright 2022 JW Vraets
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with a Tamron 90mm 1:2.8 Macro, ISO100, Daylight WB, Aperture mode, Spot metering off central lily, f/16.0 for depth of field, 1/15 sec with an EV-0,67 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px wide, apply Tone Mapping at default levels, increase Contrast and Chromaticity a bit in L-A-B mode, use Tone Curve 2 in Parametric mode to darken the Darks sightly and then brighten the Lights, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to tone down the green saturation and then increase the red saturation, add a non-destructive Dodge/Burn layer and use it to slightly dodge/brighten the central lily and then darken/burn the buds along the left edge as well as the brighter branch (upper left background), sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide, sharpen, save.
Orange Lily After A Rainfall
As I hobble about trying to find photographic subject matter distance from my home base, I spent a bit of time looking at the flowers in my garden. After a brief rainfall, some of the classic July orange lilies provided an opportunity although not without some significant shifting around trying to fine an angle that isolated the three I wanted. A sure sign of it being mid-July here in Grimsby. - JW
Date Taken: 2022-07-05
(c) Copyright 2022 JW Vraets
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with a Tamron 90mm 1:2.8 Macro, ISO100, Daylight WB, Aperture mode, Spot metering off central lily, f/16.0 for depth of field, 1/15 sec with an EV-0,67 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px wide, apply Tone Mapping at default levels, increase Contrast and Chromaticity a bit in L-A-B mode, use Tone Curve 2 in Parametric mode to darken the Darks sightly and then brighten the Lights, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to tone down the green saturation and then increase the red saturation, add a non-destructive Dodge/Burn layer and use it to slightly dodge/brighten the central lily and then darken/burn the buds along the left edge as well as the brighter branch (upper left background), sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide, sharpen, save.