Male Sweat bee

Lord Vetinari

Male Lasioglossum calceatum (I think) a slight "studio" shoot on a gaillardia flower. Originally spotted the bee looking a bit cold and damp on a camellia leaf.
Brian V.

IPClark

Absolutely beautiful colours and detail Brian. The yellows are so lovely. In fact, may I ask how you manage to produce such true yellows? I tend to find mine are particularly warm and I have to make a few adjustments in light room to the hue to get them closer to true yellow.

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments Ian.
Re the colours, I use DPP for RAW conversion and for nearly all flash shots change the colour temp to 5500'c and then check the RGB colour histogram- if this is showing red clipping (ie red against the RHS) I change the picture style from standard to neutral, reduce the RAW brightness if necessary and as a last resort reduce the RGB saturation until it stops clipping. I never change the hue or luminance.
Brian v.

IPClark

Thanks for the tips Brian. Must admit I work in Lightroom as opposed to DPP but might have a go in that to see how it goes.

I actually drop my colour temps to around 4200 - 4500 as with the current flash setup I have, they come out an average of 6700k. With regards to hue, to be honest, I only up the greens by 10% which tends to give me nice greens and slightly less warm yellows, but yeah will have a nose via DPP

As it looks, I think my colours etc. look good. No one has told me otherwise, I just want to get my yellows a bit better.

Lord Vetinari

I suspect because I do not have a properly calibrated monitor ( I do it by eye using http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/clock_phase.php ) I'm a bit adverse to playing too much with colour especially single colours.
Brian v.

GOLDENORFE

Lovely series Brian