Camelia in Shade

Gallery: FloraPosted February 20, 2017196 views4 comments

The camelias are in full bloom at the Huntington Gardens after a great rain year here in Southern California. I did some selective lightening and darkening to try to bring out the contrast between the shaded area and the lightened areas. Canon 5DIII, f11, 1/500 sec, iso 640, -1.4 exp bias, 100-400 ISL lens at 340 mm. Thanks for your thoughts.

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Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on February 21, 2017 at 4:37 AM

The high contrast lighting brings out the flower colour beautifully, Ed. The overall arrangement and lighting are first class - I love especially how the purple at bottom R complements the petal colours, and also how the touch of light in the R background adds depth. Lovely image devil

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on February 21, 2017 at 4:56 PM

Ed: Nice find and a fine capture. Love the spotlighting especially. 2 thumbs up.>=))>

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on February 21, 2017 at 10:23 PM

Good use of spotlighting. Using your long lens on this worked well for you.

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Comment posted by Yun Gao on February 24, 2017 at 11:06 PM

Ed, I like the shadows on the petals. Nice selective lightening and darkening processing too.

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