Julie Kenward
05-09-2010, 08:50 AM
The wisteria was just starting to bloom at Powell Gardens the other day. If you've never smelled wisteria you are missing one of the most fragrant smells in all the plant world. It's like lilacs x 10! :D
This particular plant was hanging from the post of a purgola in deep shade so I had to open up the BG quite a bit in pp. I also did the paint technique on the lower edges of the frame to smooth out some grass that was down below this blossom and I darkened the URC to keep it from being overly distracting. I also cloned out a couple of small leaves that were half in/half out of the frame along the edges.
Canon 40D, EF 100mm f/2.8 macro
f3.2 @ 1/640th, ISO 400 (I probably should have bumped the aperture a bit more but there were a lot of distractions near the plant.)
Processed in ACR & CS4, slight crop.
This particular plant was hanging from the post of a purgola in deep shade so I had to open up the BG quite a bit in pp. I also did the paint technique on the lower edges of the frame to smooth out some grass that was down below this blossom and I darkened the URC to keep it from being overly distracting. I also cloned out a couple of small leaves that were half in/half out of the frame along the edges.
Canon 40D, EF 100mm f/2.8 macro
f3.2 @ 1/640th, ISO 400 (I probably should have bumped the aperture a bit more but there were a lot of distractions near the plant.)
Processed in ACR & CS4, slight crop.