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.
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.
anotherview wrote:
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.
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.
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.
