What is this flower? It is spiked, fanned out, and looks like a bird of paradise before it blooms, but as you can see, it definitely isn't orange...
Here is an example of how what would otherwise be a pleasing photograph can be easily ruined by poor exposure in a hot spot... the bright afternoon sun sneaking through the trees on that one little section of rock caused a poo poo here. I didn't expose for that wee bit and got some blown highlights that ruined the shot. Live and learn...
Must sleep. Woohoo. I'm such a party animal...
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Hmm - that’s something I struggle with constantly, but don’t really have any idea how to deal with it. I’ve tried bracketing, but it seems like high-contrast areas just don’t come out. I like to think it’s the camera, but I suppose it’s more likely me?
(beautiful photo, btw - “blown hotspots” and all. ;-))
thanks Lisa… in this particular case, I just didn’t notice it… one fix is to spot meter off the brighter part of the scene (the part likely to get blown out) and then exposure compensate up a couple of stops… may have worked well in this scenario, but I just wasn’t paying attention. I tend to get in this “having so much fun taking the photos that I forget the technical aspect of it” mode and end up with a lot of stuff like this…
That looks like a member of the Iris family. I’m not positive, but that would be my guess. As for the “poo poo” photo, I like it. I’m not even positive where the boo boo is supposed to be - but I’m not in the nitpicky mood right now. It just looks like a nice soothing shot to me!
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