Fuchsia Deck
This rocker is on the front deck. A fuchsia has taken control of one neglected corner, and being neglected, dropped blossoms have collected in a small drift on the cedar boards.
I have not been paying much attention to this part of the house, so was pleasantly surprised with the visual effect of this skiff of fuchsia. I also liked the texture of the weathered teak rocker which is very compatible with that of the cedar.
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Canon 5Dii, Nikkor-N 24mm/f2.8 lens, ISO100,
- “black and white’ processed as HDR, hand-held brackets at 1/15th, 1/40th, 1/100th for rocker, and 1/30th, 1/80th, 1/200th for blossom details.
- colour blossom details processed as single image, from same series as HDR, middle exposures.
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burnt embers 
These are gorgeous, ehpem! And I’m amazed at your steady hand, being able to get such sharp images at such slow shutter-speeds while hand holding. Nicely done!
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Hi Laurie – a problem with bracketing that I still have to learn to anticipate is that it can drop you into pretty slow speeds. In this case, the 24mm lens really is forgiving and the only exposure pushing the hand-holding limit was 1/15th (the rule I learned so many years ago was that if it is a 200mm lens, don’t hand hold below 1/200th, if a 24mm don’t hand hold below 1/25th, etc).
I have recently discovered that I have a much steadier hand if I use the 2 second delay – that gives me time to press the shutter and then regain a solid grip on the camera, it makes quite a difference to me as I feel like I have lost quite a lot of steadiness when just pressing the shutter with no delay..
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superb!
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Thank you Karen!
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My mouth is wide open here, Ehpem! I am gobsmacked at the beautiful art that you have created through capturing the beautiful art of nature! The shots with selective color and totally enchanting, and the rich tones in that door are way beyond effective description, my friend!!!! Fan-flippin-tastic work here!
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Wow – what a great comment. I think I saw some toadish flippers flapping 🙂 I am so glad you like this. It is really quite a lot of fun sliding those colour bars in lightroom – so many of them to play with!
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I like the choice of processing. It takes advantage of the wood grain and texture and I do like the selective color. Well done!
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Thanks Ken – I think when I first got lightroom you said I was going to love the added control and you were totally right, it’s great being able to change the different colours in different ways.
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Love the texture and selective color!
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Thank you David!
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Beautiful! I love the starkness of the fuchsia against the grey!
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Thanks! I kind of stumbled on it and decided I liked it too.
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Preciosas 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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