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Tracy Kent
{K:270} 11/3/2009
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Hi Joggie, thank you so very much for your reply and the detailed information included, particularly the info regarding using RAW. I very much appreciate your help! Ive just started a creative digital photography night class & am already discovering new things to help me there too. Hopefully all this newfound knowledge will begin to portray itself in my photos too!
Thanks again :)
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Joggie van Staden
{K:41700} 11/2/2009
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Hi Tracy, the bright colour of this image comes firstly by using backlighting, allowing the sun to shine through the leave. Secondly, i did a few minor enhancements in Photoshop (the then CS3) - I increased the contrast slightly to darken the surrounding leaves in the shadows, applied an unsharp mask (slight - not to oversharpen) and did a minor adjustment to the saturation in order to strengthen the green, red and yellow (beware for oversaturation because you will loose detail very easily in the reds and yellows especially).
The emphasis on the PS enhancements is on MINOR. Its easy to overdo it and one then losses the natural feeling of the shot. All the PS settings above can be done in most of the modern DSLR's if you go into your menu. Myself, i prefer to do these in Nikon Capture NX or PS-CS4 because you have so much more control over the process. I also do ALL my photos in RAW - the level of detail is just so much more than in a Jpeg straight out of camera - it is more time consuming though and I recommend you apply a well thought out indexing and storage system and apply it vigorously (as well as selecting the best shots, as its so easy to overburden yourselve with too many photos of the same thing.
hope this helps!
Joggie
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Tracy Kent
{K:270} 11/2/2009
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Ive only just gone digital myself and have so far only had partial success in capturing such gorgeous colour images, do you use photoshop to enhance or is it all within your camera settings? My new camera has soooo many settings and buttons its hard to fathom ever figuring it all out! :)
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Joggie van Staden
{K:41700} 10/31/2009
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Thanks Tracy - this was one of my first photos after I changed over to digital SLR from film - never looked back!
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Tracy Kent
{K:270} 10/31/2009
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amazing colour and detail. love the presentation too, beautiful photo
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Zoki Koki
{K:-1854} 8/17/2005
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What a beautifull texture on the leaf, good colors too.
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Nour El Refai
{K:12481} 5/6/2005
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it is hot, crisp details and excellent quality, focusing, and the color is amazing
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Ingrid Mathews
{K:7277} 5/4/2005
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I love the composition you achieved here.The lighting brings out the vibrant colors perfectly.
Visually, very effective!
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Joggie van Staden
{K:41700} 4/10/2005
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Hi Jorg and others - Thanks for the comments , apprerciated. I learned photography doing a lot of B&W work. one of the rules I learned is to expose for the highlights if that is what your aiming at. In this case the rest of the leaf was in early morniong shade, so I underexposed by about 2 FStops to get the highlights correctly exposed. A little bit of cropping and adjustment of brightnes and constrast in PS was the only enhancement needed. Kind regards.
Joggie
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Jorg Reif
{K:16020} 4/10/2005
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Absolutely great shot, that light! Wonderful. This is a seven in my book and goes to my favorites. How did you get all of the background so dark right after the illuminated tip of the leaf? Would appreciate if you could tell. Was that done in the studio? Congratulations and regards Jörg
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Jim Budrakey
{K:24393} 4/10/2005
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Beautiful composition and amazingly dramatic color. This is excellent.
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Peter De Rycke
{K:41212} 4/9/2005
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Prachtige foto, de onscherpte die overgaat naar scherpte is goed benaderd, de kleurenovergangen zijn mooi om zien. Zwarte achtergrond goed gekozen, belichting perfect.. nu is er voor mij nog ietsje teveel zwart in de foto... doe zo voort !!
Peter
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Alejandro Gómez
{K:4270} 4/9/2005
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Excellent photo. I like the two scales of colours, red and green, with the black background. Good details and light. Well done
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