Three Brooms Sweep Clean

Palm tree fronds falling off palm trees after the rain. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

Palm Tree Appreciation

A visitor photographing palm trees in the South American Garden. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

There was originally some flares at the upper left corner of the image. This was due to the presence of some spots of fungi in the lens of my (third) copy of the Fujifilm bridge camera. The flares were lazily fixed with the ‘Auto Haze Removal’ tool in post.

A Leaning Giant

A Malayan Giant Fan Palm towering over visitors in the botanic gardens here. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

Despite having biased the exposure 2/3 stop darker, there were flares around areas with views of the bright sky. This was probably because of fungus in the lens.

So mid-tones in these areas of the image were separately darkened in post to fix the flares. Purple fringing in high contrast areas was also removed by de-saturating the magenta and red channels. My version of Photoshop Elements didn’t seem to have the option for removing Chromatic Aberration.

Happy Colour-Me World

Palm fruits colouring up a corner of the Gardens by the Bay. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

This was captured against dark undergrowth and underexposed just 2/3 stop. Only a little further darkening in post to make the image.

Close To Thee

Madagascar Palm huddling together in the congested conservatory. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

As the Pentax camera tends to underexpose images, only a darker 2/3-stop bias in the exposure was used here to keep highlight details.

Under The Date Palms

Folks chatting under date palm trees in the Mediterranean Garden. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

Exposure was kept muted here for the sake of the small human figures lest these should become washed out. I had only need to bias the exposure darker by 1/3 stop as the Pentax would’ve already underexposed the image a bit.

Two-Fold Fruits

Ruffled Fan Palm bearing fruits in the botanic garden. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

Marvellous In Our Eyes

 

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Visitors taking in the sights in the conservatory. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

This was underexposed by a stop as I had wanted to avoid getting any of the folks here washed-out. It meant that the shadows had need to be lifted in post. This resulted in the folks becoming brighter than what I would like. So the area around the folks including them were darkened a tad to get this final image.

Critically Endangered Copernicia

 

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Copernicia Fallaensis palm dancing in the wind. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

With a shutter speed of 1/640 second, motion blur wasn’t a concern with the palm leaves moving in the wind. I had only need to wait for them to be in the desired position and then released the shutter.