electrolyte
Prominent Member
It has been a while since I entered the competition, April in fact. While I was hanging out my washing this morning I noticed that a tree in my garden is filled with lots of red berries. I thought these would make a good subject and grabbed my new 2nd hand Canon 50D and Sigma 50mm f/1.4 and snapped away.
I wanted to take a dreamy sort of shot with some of the berries in focus with most out of focus. The sun was shining strongly directly above berries and I wanted to capture this light too. Hopefully you'll all think I have been successful!
Dreamy red berries by SimonButlerPhotography, on Flickr
Camera Canon EOS 50D
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture f/1.4
Focal Length 50 mm
ISO Speed 100
Taken on August 7, 2011 at 10.03am BST
Processing:
1. In LR3 used the Direct Positive preset
2. Increased the blacks, contrast, added a vignette
3. In PSE9 I boosted the red colour of the berries as they were a little orange
4. High-pass filter sharpened
I wanted to take a dreamy sort of shot with some of the berries in focus with most out of focus. The sun was shining strongly directly above berries and I wanted to capture this light too. Hopefully you'll all think I have been successful!
Dreamy red berries by SimonButlerPhotography, on Flickr
Camera Canon EOS 50D
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture f/1.4
Focal Length 50 mm
ISO Speed 100
Taken on August 7, 2011 at 10.03am BST
Processing:
1. In LR3 used the Direct Positive preset
2. Increased the blacks, contrast, added a vignette
3. In PSE9 I boosted the red colour of the berries as they were a little orange
4. High-pass filter sharpened