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p.1 #1 · A Few More from the Garden

Some more with the 5D MkII, this time with the 70-300DO IS and 500D (no not a Rebel) screwed into the front. It would be nice of Canon to come out with a 100 macro with IS.

1. Peony seed pods

2. Yellow Jewelweed

3. Orange Jewelweed

Jewelweeds are also called touch-me-nots because of their exploding seed pods. Throw a few seeds into a shady spot of your yard and in a few years you'll be up to your armpits in them.

Jul 11, 2009 at 05:00 AM

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p.1 #2 · A Few More from the Garden

TBannor: Like No. 2 the most. Yellow a difficult color to capture. May I ask what technique you use to do it?

My pix of yellow leaves have come out overexposed, showing strong highlights.

Jul 11, 2009 at 05:38 AM

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p.1 #3 · A Few More from the Garden

Sorry for the delay. I didn't do anything special here; just regular evaluative metering. However, I find yellows blow out on sunny days. There was a high overcast here that cut the contrast greatly. Also, the yard is on the east side of the house, so if it's a sunny day, I wait for the sun to drop below the house and put the garden in shadow.

If you're shooting yellow flowers on a sunny day, the best thing to do is use spot metering, meter on the yellow and open up 1-2 stops, depending on how bright the yellow is. This should keep it from blowing out.

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TBannor: Like No. 2 the most. Yellow a difficult color to capture. May I ask what technique you use to do it?

My pix of yellow leaves have come out overexposed, showing strong highlights.

Jul 11, 2009 at 07:38 PM

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p.1 #4 · A Few More from the Garden

Here's another yellow flower; spotted St. John's wort. Just taken an hour or so ago. It's a little sunnier today as you can see by the shadows. But, I didn't do anything special. The evaluative metering seems to be able to deal with the brightness of the yellow.

Jul 11, 2009 at 09:29 PM

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p.1 #5 · A Few More from the Garden

BTW, the St. John's wort was taken with the 100 macro USM.

Jul 11, 2009 at 09:30 PM

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p.1 #6 · A Few More from the Garden

TBannor: Thanks for tip on exposure of yellow flowers. Have a tiny yellow flower growing in a shady corner of my backyard lawn. Will try to photograph it using your technique. Maybe will have success this time. I better hurry, though, because a very tiny caterpillar likes to munch all the petals of this flower.

Just checked: All yellow petals gone.

Jul 12, 2009 at 01:52 AM

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p.1 #7 · A Few More from the Garden

Sorry about the petals. If the flower is very small and much brighter than everything else around it is less reflective, the spot metering technique should work.

Jul 12, 2009 at 02:39 PM

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p.1 #8 · A Few More from the Garden

Some nice captures you have there

Jul 12, 2009 at 02:52 PM


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