Pitcher Plant

[Richard Waas]

I was at Selby Gardens in Sarasota, Florida this weekend and was amazed at how well the garden looked since they had below freezing temperatures for several nights in a row. They used heaters and covered many of their plants. This is a macro of a Nepenthes or pitcher plant photographed with my Canon 5D MK II. ISO 400, f/2.8, 1/8 sec, EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM, Spot Metering, Auto Exposure, Auto WB, No Flash. Comments Welcome....

[kostas nianiopoulos]

i like the those reds with the green BG , looks verry sharp , well done Richard a verry good image .

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Neat Richard very colorful, what was your spot point of reference - just curious.

[Gus Cobos]

I like the curved introduction of the petal in frame. You have bold colors with sharp details and good texture...I like it Mr. Waas...:cool:

[Richard Waas]

Jeff, I focused on the highlighted ridge of the plant. I tried multiple f-stops, but I liked the maximum aperture to blur the background.

[Alfred Forns]

Lovely plant and glad it made it through the cold spell !!!

Colors and shapes do it for me, excellent !!! ... just not sure what you spot metered on?

[Richard Waas]

Al, the plant was surrounded by a lot of light and when I used evaluative metering, the pitcher was coming out dark to I decided to meter off the pitcher itself. What would you have done?

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Richard, so you metered on the plant itself. I was just curious, there are so many light and dark points in the image I was wondering if you selected a point out of frame. Thank you for the answer as alwats nice work.

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Congrats Richard. Love the composition.