single photos High Key Sunflower

One of those tiems a spot meter would have been useful. I figured the

backlighting would confuse the meter so I "underexposed" based on it's

reading, but the result was still a little on the high side. I was

pleased with the result, detail in the center and still a little bit

of color in the sky. Sometimes you just guess right...

 

I see many cropping possibilities here, but this is as close as I

could get (the flower was about 12 feet off the ground). I left the

bottom edge because I do like the diffraction around the hairs on the

stem.

Good photo. Seems a bit oveer-exposured, though. Good composition.

In dealing with the enormous dynamic range here, it would be difficult to expose it better short of doing two identically framed images and combining them in the computer. I think the center of the flower is the most interesting part of this and that's what is correctly exposed.

The exposure here is wonderful. It's obviously overexposed, but to good effect. The only place it doesn't really work is on the leaf to the left, but that's easy to overlook in this image.