Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Sunflowers Near Sunset

 Sunflowers Near Sunset

Columbia Bottom Conservation Area plants fields of sunflowers, which are very popular.. This photo was taken about 1 hr before sunset, the crowds were really rolling in, I had a little challenge getting an angle without people posing amongst the flowers!




I did a square crop of the same image for Instagram, which do you prefer?


There's actually a fair bit of digital darkroom here, the lighting was pretty challenging.  In a perfect world I'd've had a tripod, and done separate exposures for the flowers and the sky.  Another option would've been a graduated neutral density filter.  But I selected an exposure that split the difference, then adjusted both in photoshop,  Along with some other "typical" tweaks.



Here's the original, straight from camera shot:




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