White Wild Flowers

I dont know what kind of flowers these are, but found them in the woods near our cottage. This is my first flower picture and I would appreciate exposure tips on how to correctly capture white flowers without washing them out.

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they look like some form of narcissus?

Try setting your exposure compensation down a third to keep the detail in the whites.

nancy

I agree on the narcissus call (think Daffodil). They're probably not wild, but rather someone dropped them there or a bird (or more likely, a squirrel).

White flowers are a real challenge!!!

Thanks for the advice and the identification. They were taken about 30 yards from an abandoned wooden shack, so as you say they probably aren't wild at all!

I`ll agree with that,there is no detail in the whites.

Nice composition. You did lose a little detail in the flowers that are in focus.

I agree too yet the whites are not overexposed according to the software. I tried to recover some detail with PP but to no avail. Next time I'll correct the exposure in the camera and hopefully things will improve.

Here's another quick attempt at redeeming some of the detail in the white pedals.

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sugarzebra wrote:
I agree too yet the whites are not overexposed according to the software. I tried to recover some detail with PP but to no avail. Next time I'll correct the exposure in the camera and hopefully things will improve.

I think that the best thing to do is to shoot raw,this way you can underexposse the image and have superb looking whites on a darker bg,it will look great.