Saturday, May 15, 2010

Fruit or Flower plant 水果或花卉植物 ...


Location: Putrajaya Wetlands 布城湿地
Date Taken: May 13th, 2010
Nikon D90, Tamron AF SP 90mm f/2.8
ISO 1000, "A" mode 1/200 @ F20, -5/3 EV, WB=Auto

...... It is always visually pleasing in my opinion to have dark backgrounds. And, I always try to do camera settings to get a dark enough background and then the Software to tune it completely dark. I find that overdoing it using software makes the subject in the foreground very awkward in terms of color saturation; therefore, I always try to use camera setting to get the darkest possible background and a minimal tuning using software. Of course, if you setup with a tripod, remote release, and a non-reflective black color board will do as well ...