Roses in my garden

Here are a couple I took today, both in RAW and then downsized to 800 wide jpg for the forum. Taken about 5:30pmEDT with indirect sun (open shade) with cloudy white balance, ISO50, program mode, zoomed to 102mm and macro mode, UV filter. Betty Boop was 1/50, f/4.0 and Sun Goddess was 1/100, f/4.0. Shown as taken, except for cloning out some chemical spots on leaves on Betty Boop and slight cropping of Sun Goddess. Comments please.

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Del:

I think the Yellow Rose is one fine picture. Great capture and the depth of field is excellent. I like it!

The red rose is also a good photo. The red color is not fantastic, a little washed out. If that is how it looked then it is a great picture as well. I have taken so many pictures of red flowers of all kinds, that I have lost count. Very little satisfaction. The sensors on the CCD just don't do red as well as other colors especially in higher light. The lower the light the better the results. I was looking for the thread that this forum discussed this in detail, but could not find it. But, I did find my best red rose color. It is under critique, "Trying out lighting" if you want to look.

Keep expermenting on those red flowers and if you get a winning method, please share it with me. I am obsessed with so many red flowers in my yard. I want to get them.

Del,

Here is another red red picture that I took in almost dark light, then I lightened it up on the computer and the result is in my opinon a rich color. The same rose taken 30 minutes earlier was not fit to keep. Digital is great!

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This is a red shot I took this weekend with my D30.

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