Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > > > > > Sonny > > > http://sonc.com/look/ > > > Natchitoches, Louisiana > > > 1714 > > > Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase > > > > > > USA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Tina Manley > > www.tinamanley.com > > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0- > > 4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > 1714 > Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html