This was actually taken an hour after noon with the daylily set against dark undergrowth. And to emphasize texture details, the image was de-saturated a tad in post.
Category: sigma photography
Intermediate Appetite
The egret was on elevated ground so I had only need to walk up the slope slowly towards it until the camera was level with the bird.
I preferred this view as it drew me instinctively into its world and also it gave better subject isolation from the background.
Zippy Jaguar
It would’ve been nice if the humble Sigma DP2M could catch this 100km/h (about 62 mph) dash but no, the motion blur here had to be created out of the actual background in post. The starting point of the zoom radial blur had need to be placed outside the frame, so the canvas size was increased by 130 percent to the right for this, after which the image was cropped back to its original size.
The Age Of Innocence
Marguerite And Family
Swinebread In The Garden
Focussing of this Sigma camera needed a good moment to lock but these cyclamen won’t be going any where so that was fine with these subjects. A stop of underexposure in this capture had managed to produce the low-key effect.
Head-Turners
Originally placed in symmetrical rows facing west, these sunflowers were already facing random direction after having been out there for a week. I was quite happy with the colours out of the Sigma sensor, so they were left alone. Contrast was only tweaked sparingly in post.
True Violet
Violets appeared as violets coming out of the Sigma camera, something that I was glad to have as that would’ve saved me some work in post.
A Glimpse Of Swan Lake
Cooper’s Grass Aloes
The colours were left as captured as I was mostly happy with the output from the Sigma sensor.
The Native Prairie Coneflower
This was taken at the level of the flowers and against the light without any exposure bias, otherwise my copy of the lens used here could’ve flared quite badly. Shadows and mid-tones were then pushed up in post. With a good lens, I would’ve brightened the exposure at the time of capture and saved myself some post work.
Christmas In The Air
This was captured with the exposure biased a stop darker, even though it had need to be brighter, as the lens used here had the tendency to flare whenever the exposure was too bright. The shadows were then lifted up in post.