Friday, November 13, 2009

Foster Botanical Garden Take 2 - 11/11/2009

On Veteran's day off, I went back to Foster Botanical Garden and met up w/ Erick, Susie, Jalna, and Sze. I wanted to work on more HDR now that I kinda got used to the tripod.
I'm still trying to work on my flowers to get the right color saturation.
Although I don't have a macro lens, I tried to do some closeup and then cropped it to look more macro...
Purple is a really tough color to get...most of mine came out kinda pinkish..
Greens seem to come out better in HDR...
I wanted to get some patterns on the leaves.
We walked around and I wanted to get a shot how enormous the tree was by shooting up the tree..
When I tried to copy Jalna's setting for contrast, saturation and tone, I actually set the dial the other direction to -2 instead...DUH!! ARGH!! So, the cannonball flower came out kinda washed out..even after doing HDR processing.
After the walk around the garden, we ended back at the green house....even though the weather report sounded ominous and it poured the night before, it turned out to be a nice day after all.

2 comments:

celia said...

My favs are the leaves with orange stems - great composition and patterns; and the last one - the Budha is so large in the foreground - very good perspective. I want to try that out.

jalna said...

OMG Shun Wah, your Buddha shot came out sooooo neat!!! And your tree looks like an alien creature . . . awesome!!