In a forested area close to home there is a fairly large trillium patch that blooms every year during mid-May. This patch easily contains a thousand flowers or more, mostly the white variety (Trillium grandiflorum - Ontario's official flower), but sprinkled here and there are found these red ones (Trillium erectum). They are outnumbered by a margin of about 50-1, but they add a nice splash of deep red colours within the sea of white flowers and green leaves and ferns...quite the sight!
Choosing the right camera settings is the "easy" part when confronted with such a sight...choosing the right flower within the right surroundings/background void of distracting elements, and then composing correctly without introducing other unwanted distractions is the tough part! One can easily spend ten times as much time scouting and choosing than actually photographing!
Canon 30D + Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 lens @60mm, aperture priority, evaluative metering, 1/200s., f/5, ISO 800, +0.3 EC, natural light, handheld, FF, a few blemishes on the leaf digitally repaired.







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Very natural looking processing too!

