[Leica] Friday Flowers SonC

[Tina Manley]

Beautiful, too, but the light on the other one is spectacular.  Maybe crop
out the blobs?

My magnolias are blooming now, too, and I don't trim them so there are
plenty of blossoms within reach.  Come on down (or up, as the case may be)
  ;-)

Tina

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tina, Yes, one of the reasons I chose to go with f4.5 rather than wide
> open, where they would have been perfect circles.
>
> When I find a bloom this nice with no browning, I capture it as best I can.
>
> Shooting white flowers at midday means shooting in the shade, and magnolias
> with their big leaves have lots of openings to the sky.
>
> Another problem encountered with Magnolias (in these parts) is that the
> trees are trimmed so you can mow beneath them often putting the perfect
> flower out of reach.
>
> To compensate, I subdued the whites in camera raw filter, then burned them
> in some, cropping out most blobs on the left and letting the ones on the
> right balance the negative space.
>
> Anyhow, here's one from files without the blobs for you!
> http://www.sonc.com/magnolia.htm
>
> ;-)
>
> SonC
>
>
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The magnolia itself is magnificent with beautiful light but I find the
> > white OOF blobs in the background distracting.
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 5:16 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > When it starts warming up in Natchitoches the magnolias bloom, and we
> > have
> > > hundreds of trees.  Looks like big white birds nesting. This one is
> from
> > > that little park at Pine and Cypress streets.
> > >
> > > http://sonc.com/look/?p=5503
> > >
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