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06-AUG-2008

8/6/08 - Dahlia Macro

Not much to say - it's a macro shot of a pretty dahlia. Shot late in the day - 1/2 second even at ISO 800. I've been doing a lot of experimenting using spot metering for flower macros. Spot meter on one of the brightest areas of the image and add some positive EV to raise the metered area above the mid-gray exposure that the meter is designed to give (+2/3 here and probably should have been more like +1 2/3 since I had to increase the EV by nearly another 2/3 in processing the RAW image).

Nikon D300
1/2s f/16.0 at 105.0mm iso800 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Yiannis Pavlis09-Aug-2008 18:13
Great clarity colours and light.