Flowers 2011 (Photoclubalpha Flora)

[Greg Beetham]

First time I've seen this one flower, someone gave it too me some time ago, some kind of ground orchid I think.
Greg
ps. taken late...as usual.
A700 KM28-75

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[Birma]

That's a beauty Greg . A really nice purple colour.

[stevecim]

I find when I take flash shots of purple flower, they turn blue, is there some trick to stop that happening? or do you just have to correct it in PP

[Greg Beetham]

Thanks Birma, I had a lot of trouble with the wind, at times it was gone completely from view, so I ended up pretty much doing a snapshot.
Greg
ps. caught your post stevecim, yes I agree, even this one is just not quite blue enough (third attempt) but very close. Auto fix/or enhance in Elements doesn't get it right, but if you do auto level first and then auto colour it gets it pretty close, I think I also used auto contrast as well but in Elements it seems very conservative.
Shadow and highlight control sometimes messes with the colour as well so on this one I just used a little bit of shadow lift, about +8 I think it was, and I forgot about brightness on this one, sometimes I use a little bit of brightness, just to give things a little bit of zap.

[mvanrheenen]

You did a excellent flash job in my opinion Greg. You highlighted the foreground (flower and stem) just enough, without blowing out anything. Nice flower too btw

[stevecim]

Thanks for the detailed instructions, the only problem is I use DxO DOP, but I have some purple flowers in the garden, that always come out blue in photos.
After lots of mucking around, I was about to give up, when I remembered there was a tool called, "multi-point colour balance" I had removed it from my tool set has I had no idea how to drive it. So I thought I give it a try.




original capture




I'm happy with the results,

[Greg Beetham]

Thanks Mark, I was trying to be clever and nearly outsmarted myself, I had the F56 in my left hand with the camera resting on top of it too help hold it up because I had to wait for the flower to settle down between gusts, I thought the flash would look better coming from underneath rather than mounted on the camera and coming from the side, but in the end it took so long to actually get a shot I think the F56 possibly wandered off course a little.

Yep colour spaces are a bit of a mystery alright stevecim, I think it probably wouldn’t hurt to burn a little incense and maybe stroke a lucky rabbit’s foot now and then whilst editing.
Nice flower shot btw.
Greg

[aster]

Hi Greg,

Beautiful purples. You've done fine with the processing. A charming orchid type.


Hi Stevecim, : )

I have the same flower here but the season's not right. It's all dry and dead until spring being winter.

Again, good processing of the purple colour. I sometimes get them blue as well but not always...When the light angle changes the tints of blue and purple also changes in my experience.

Thanks for sharing,

Yildiz

[Birma]

It looks much nice in purple Steve .

I have similar problems with blues - they never seem to look quite right, but I think this is a problem with my monitor / PC set up.

[Dr. Harout]

Which is the alternative to DxO's "Multi-point colour balance" in LR? Anyone?

[Greg Beetham]

Don't know Doc, can't help there, but I might have to re-think about how to tackle things in Elements once again, my procedure still is no good for some things I've since found.
Greg

[jbtaylor]

From Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania, USA. A huge place with everything one could imagine in a garden.
a900 with Sigma 24-70 2.8 HSM (first two)
135 mm 1.8 ZA (3rd)
Tamron 14mm 2.8 (4th)
Feel free to move the post if it's not enough flowers.









Website
http://longwoodgardens.org/

[[SiC]]

Very nice jbtaylor Love the bokeh from the 135 mm ZA.

[jbtaylor]

Very nice jbtaylor Love the bokeh from the 135 mm ZA.

Thanks for looking and commenting. Often times I am looking for the bokeh just as much as the primary subject when using that lens. Doesn't get a lot of use but it will have to be pried from my dead hands if I give it up.

[jbtaylor]

a little more bokeh.