A Rose In The Wilderness

A Desert Rose basking in the sun in probably the hottest part of the botanic gardens. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

Two stops of negative exposure compensation was apparently still not enough to tone down a busy backdrop. So in post, local burning was applied to the background and the overall exposure had then need to be tweaked again to get this final image.

Roses In The Desert

Desert Roses in the warmest part of the Gardens by the Bay – the Sun Pavilion. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

The bokehs were originally a bit nervous, due partly to the smaller sensor and the variable-aperture lens used. So some noise reduction and a tiny bit of Gaussian blur were applied in post to fix the issue a bit.