Potted Cymbidium

Cymbidium Orchids in a shopping mall. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

The aperture was set to f/11 as this was where the lens would perform best. But this meant the ISO had need to be pushed to 6400 by the camera to give a hand-hold able shutter speed and ending up with double-digit noise. The noise was reduced partially in post in order not to impact details too much.

Cymbidium Orchids In Sync

Cymbidium Orchids seemingly cheering in unison in a shopping mall. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

The image originally came out rather warm with the greens barely discernible as the orchids were in a lobby lit with tungsten lights. This was easily fixed during raw conversion with some white balance tweaks.