Bugle Corps

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Description

We have had a very mild autumn and our hibiscus are loving it and blooming like crazy. This pristine beauty was showing off on the patio this morning. It was breezy so no real chance at a stack plus I wanted to emphasize the “bugles” anyway. >=))>

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Getting the color of this variety is a little bit of a trick but this is a pretty faithful rendering. I thought about filling in the small opening where the petals meet but felt this looked good as is.

Technical Details

Sony A7rIII
Sony FE 70-200 f2.8 GM-II @ 200mm
ISO 400, 1/40 @ f11

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Nice job getting the bugles without blowing out the reds Bill. We have one of this color too, but I’ve not been able to get a really good rendering of the reds in it. I like the trumpet face. I know it is just the way the petals overlap, but the little dark gap in the URC is drawing my eye a bit. I wonder if you were to select just that spot and subtly clone in a bit of the darker brick color from the ULC how it would look?

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Really cool, Bill. Hibiscus flowers have such cool shapes and I think your depth of field shows this one off rather nicely. I’m not sure about the background vegetation. The light bouncing off some of the reflective green tends to draw my eye a bit. I wonder about going black with the background?

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Gorgeous! You got enough DOF and I like that part of the petals on the right are in focus. I might actually tame the yellows just a tad to bring out more detail, even if it’s only 0.01% of the image. The BG detail is very nice – I wouldn’t kill it by going black but it could be darkened quite a bit. Just working with just the colors might do it without any masking – greens and blues predominate there. Easy to mask out the area of blue on the petals, which is lovely.

The dark area at hte edge of the petal at the top doesn’t bother me, as it looks very natural, sculpted by the well-defined rippled edge.