I really enjoy the changing seasons. The other week I was hiking at Babler State Park and I took some pictures of wildflowers. I love to see the changes and imperfections in their petals as the weather is getting cooler. When I saw that delicate was the theme at Where’s My Backpack? I thought that these photos would fit nicely:
Here is the original photo that has been cropped but not really edited much. I have the f-stop set at 5.6 because I wanted to get the two blooms in front in focus but I was OK with the ones in the back being out of focus. If those back buds had been in focus I think the surrounding greenery would have been distracting. I chose a fairly high shutter speed because it was a bit breezy and I was bracketing my exposures as well. I bumped up the ISO a bit to help the exposure as it was a bit dark.
Since I had a bracketed exposure I decided to make an HDR image using Photomatix. This shot below is with the “creative setting”.
I like the detail in the petals but it wan’t really what I was going for. Since there is also a HDR setting in Photoshop, I gave that a try:
I’m using the “regular” setting for this image. I then had to use the burn tool to bring in more detail in the petals. I’m not crazy about the way the background flowers turned out in this one though.
It’s funny because there are elements of each photo that I like, but I don’t really have a favorite. How about you? Does one appeal to you more than the others? My other photos from Babler State Park are here and here.
Cheers!
I like the color in the first one.
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Thank you, I do as well, I think it was just some of the details that I wasn’t crazy about.
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Lovely!
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Thank you 🙂
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Very beautiful captures. 🙂
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Thanks!
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Hate to be wishy-washy, Amy, but there is something to love about each of these photos. I can’t decide on a favorite. 🙂
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I agree with you. In this case, I think this means that I need to either re-shoot or re-edit or both. It was interesting, I went into the editing progress thinking that I would end up with a clear favorite. I thought it would be the one I edited in Photomatix, but it didn’t turn out that way this time.
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I like the second one.
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Thanks!
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Lovely, and perfect for the theme!
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Thank you, I just love wildflowers!
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Absolutely natural beauty … Thanks for sharing Aquileana 😉
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Thanks and thank you for visiting 🙂
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