Connie's Daylilies

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My wife has over 200 daylily plants and the season is about to peak.

Below is a daylily I find unusual - a brownish orange.

I usually use a tripod, manual exposure, morning light and focus using screen display instead of view finder. I use the display because I find I can better compose my shot. I used to use a wider aperture most often but now I tend to use f/9 for a single flower. While that does not lend itself to blurring the background (bokeh), I find that I get more of the flower itself in focus. I don't often center the flower in the photo, but for this one it just seemed right. I may use a little saturation at times, but tend not to as I prefer to adjust exposure.

For more artistic shots I vary my exposure settings quite a bit.

I shoot either raw or jpeg depending on my mood. Now that I have a 24 inch monitor and a monitor calibrator it is so nice to see if I accurately captured the color. If not, I am back out taking more shots.

Post processing may involve a little cropping and maybe some adjustments to levels, but that is about it.

Comments and criticism welcome please.
Phil

Doug Solis

My only comment is this flower is strikingly gorgeous. Nice capture.

lifeinfocus

Doug Solis wrote: »

My only comment is this flower is strikingly gorgeous. Nice capture.

Thank you.

Here is another. I generally prefer this type of composition. Comments and criticism welcome. Phil

Snowgirl

The colours in both are brilliant! Personally I like simple shots (like the single day lily) so I can focus (bad pun) on one thing and not be confused about what the main point of the photo is. But, that's just me