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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Any good resources to meter and post process flowers?

Hello. I find shooting flowers is easy. There's a lot of different ways and angles, and places to focus at. There is such a wide variety of flowers. However, there are a large number of pure red, or some other pure color flowers that clip, present tone shifts, artifacts and just seem immune to photography in different ways. Since I've seen other have these same problems over different forums, I wanted to ask if there's a modern guide on how to prepare, expose, focus stack, aperture stack, post processing tricks, etc. to get the flowers are close as to what's observed, and then best ways to output that (another big issue).

Any resources are appreciated. Or if you are a flower photographer, and have tips and tricks, I'd be very interested in learning about them. The first issue is always a flower that doesn't seem to be clipped in the histogram (white), nor even in the channel histogram in camera, then doesn't seem so in the PP histogram, however, as one inspects the photo (typically ProPhoto working space if using Lr or RT) it will show clipped in the highlights.

Thanks!

Sep 05, 2019 at 11:12 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Any good resources to meter and post process flowers?

Switch to mirrorless. You will get what you see when you adjust your exposure and aperture.

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Sep 06, 2019 at 07:06 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Any good resources to meter and post process flowers?

fferreres wrote:
Hello. I find shooting flowers is easy. There's a lot of different ways and angles, and places to focus at. There is such a wide variety of flowers. However, there are a large number of pure red, or some other pure color flowers that clip, present tone shifts, artifacts and just seem immune to photography in different ways. Since I've seen other have these same problems over different forums, I wanted to ask if there's a modern guide on how to prepare, expose, focus stack, aperture stack, post processing tricks, etc. to get the flowers are close as to what's...Show more →

Put your exposure to the left a bit...that will stop clipping & help with over saturation.

Sep 07, 2019 at 09:20 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Any good resources to meter and post process flowers?

mogul wrote:
Put your exposure to the left a bit...that will stop clipping & help with over saturation.

I found that the best way to fix my lenses, camera and phoography was too.. umm, upgrade my monitor. I got a XPS 15" 4K 2-in-1 which calibrated gives wider than Adobe RGB. Flowers don't clip any more in the reds, butt if with highlights I sometimes shot to the left a bit as suggested.

Oct 22, 2019 at 05:10 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Any good resources to meter and post process flowers?

Hello, flowers are easy? Well as you describe they do put up challenges that need to be taken into consideration

If you are shooting Canon, most likely reds will oversaturate, shoot RAW and don't overexpose.

Lighting, well overcast is best, sunlight consider using a polarizing filter to remove surface reflections that will bring out petal details. Lighting is key, again overcast diffused light is your friend. Reducing contrast in PP can help too.

You may find that you need to adjust 'Hue' setting in post processing to get 'what you saw is what you get' results.
Focus stacking, I have not, I prefer to be creative and get what I can get with control of DOF. However I have seen great results from other using Zerene focus stacking software.

Post some images

Karl


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