Back in June, bright pink and white tiger lilies were in full bloom and
on a calm night, I was able to get out and take photographs of these beautiful flowers.
I like to get up close to the lilies so I used my Zeikos extension
tubes on the 24-120 lense and the D90. Because I’m shooting macro, I put the
camera on my tripod and use a 5 second self timer to keep camera vibration to a
minimum. I manual focus and had VR off on the lense. Shooting in RAW, the
aperture was right around f18 or f22 in ISO 200 or 400. Exposure compensation
was also adjusted and I added in the SB-700 speed light too. I took different
photographs with the flash at different angles.
Once uploaded in ViewNX, I changed the white balance to direct sunlight
and used three different picture controls (standard, landscape,
nature-landscape). Highlight and shadow sliders were also adjusted to fine tune
the image. I did create a couple HDR images so I processed them like in the
past by creating multiple exposed images and merging them together in Easy HDR.
Photoshop Elements 11 put the final touches on the image using the
clone brush tool, levels layer, and high pass filter. The clone brush helped me
get rid of unwanted insects that flew into the frame while taking the picture and
the levels layer helped with exposure. I used the high pass filter to sharpen
the image when I was done.
While getting my D90 fixed, I rented the Nikon D7100 for 10 days and
took a few close up flower shots as well to see how it compared to the D90. The
increased resolution between the cameras is visible as the D7100 picks up more
detail on the orange flower in my mind. I only took a dozen shots of flowers
with the D7100 but used it a couple nights at the golf course so I look forward
to processing them.
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#11. Taken with D7100
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