A Rose

Hi all. Mostly a lurker here, but I've been trying to work on my macro skills. Here is a rose from this weekend. I had a lot of trouble working with the red on the top of the petals (but not as much trouble as I had working with some yellow flowers). Is this typical with red flowers, or perhaps an exposure issue?

Nice shot
Reds and yellows often blow the colour on DSLRs. I'm sure there are better ways of doing it but I often shoot with -.66 EC for natural light and then use some -ve saturation during RAW processing to help preserve detail.
Brian V.

Its a beautiful shot, the colours and lighting are good - composition is good too.

Yes, reds and oranges usually give me problems, yellow isnt too bad for me but depends on what it is and the lighting at the time.

Linda

Thank you, Brian and Linda, for taking the time to comment. I'll investigate the impact of different colors/exposures/light​ing on my flower shots.

This is very wonderful. The color and exposure is spot on! I have a canon xt and yellow's and red's get blown out about as much as my car emits exhaust fumes...all the time. I did some shots for a fire department and their uniforms, not macro, but the reds and yellows in the stripes had no detail. Again, very nice shot.

lovely shot

Lovely photo, one teeny dust spot to clone out at 10 o'clock - keeping those FF sensors clean is a chore but at least you have built in dust prevention measures on that body.

Very nice shot, but I think light is a little flat.