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countrydirt (April 22nd, 2019), Deb (April 23rd, 2019), fountainpagan (April 27th, 2019), Lady Onogaro (April 24th, 2019), SIR (April 27th, 2019)
fountainpagan (April 27th, 2019), NibsForScript (May 2nd, 2019), oldstoat (April 29th, 2019)
Oldstoat, do you happen to know the name of the purple flowers on the photo, please?
It is the common bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta, widespread in England in the spring. It can interbreed with the Spanish bluebell H. hispanica, which is paler.
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I have a few I took for my sketches:
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(They aren't that fancy, but I liked the light).
oldstoat (April 30th, 2019)
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South Jersey USA
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A Tiarella ( cultivar unknown)
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fountainpagan (April 30th, 2019), Voiren (April 30th, 2019)
Ok, I have to ask: was that an extremely shadowed background, or was it dark and you lit up the flower? I can't work out how you took that one! It looks great.
Ah, these are secrets of an ancient craft which are not meant for mortal man to know...
But, as it's you, the answer is spot metering. For subjects like this, even in quite bright light, the white highlights burn out and lose detail (as they're so reflective) if you rely on average metering. I actually took the exposure reading from a single flower which looked very bright. The real experts use an incident light meter, but for me that's getting a bit fussy.
Last edited by oldstoat; May 1st, 2019 at 01:17 PM.
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Voiren (May 1st, 2019)
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Beech trees on the North Downs Way in Surrey. They remind me of a natural cathedral.
Some days, it's hardly worth chewing through the leather straps....
More bluebells. Such a shame that we can't capture the scent of a bluebell wood.Beechwoods1r18.JPG
Some days, it's hardly worth chewing through the leather straps....
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