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Hi Rajat,

A nice scene with very good detail developed on the plant.

The bright sheen from the plant can be prevented by under-exposing the area of highest reflectance by 1/2 stop (1.4 times), since the background is easy to adjust upward upon my examining the image characteristics. This indicates that the exposure was on the "high" side of your camera's dynamic range , and little can be done in Photoshop to reduce the brightness section of this image without causing a shift in color saturation levels due to the exposure selected.

Often, especially in Nature, I find leaves from plants to exhibit a "shine or wax-like look".

Best Regards my friend, Mike

Hi Mike. Your point is very well made. As I remember it, the red 'leaf' did have a sheen on it. I tried compensating with a -0.66 EV bias. The idea was to retain the natural look of the flower without having any washed out areas (as indicated by the histogram).

Hi Rajat,

While the camera's histogram is a relative indicator, I rather use a coupe of shots at different set points. The reason is that NO histogram is accurate out of the camera and few are any good from Photoshop and other post processing programs. A histogram as a "graph" reveals very little information to those of us that study histograms numerically on a regular basis in the lab.

Keep in mid that a good camera with a good sensor package (sensor + drive electronics) can manage a wide range of exposure values away from "perfect" for most scenes. However, nothing can be done faithfully if the image exceeds the saturation point of that sensor package.

I have found myself posting similar flower images that have the sheen, because that is what my eye saw anyway. However, being aware of other techniques is good to practice, especially if you ever try imaging one of these flowers with a flash.  Then the "sheen look" can be overwhelming and not as good as you would like it to be.

Best Regards my friend, Mike

Very well done, my dear friend!

A beautiful result with very nice lighting and colors, Rajat!