{"id":471,"date":"2011-05-09T21:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T02:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2011-05-09T21:08:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T02:08:41","slug":"fiddleheads-again-and-trillium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Fiddleheads (again) and Trillium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning… photo talk ahead!<\/p>\n

I was not particularly satisfied with the photos of fiddleheads that I got last week; the light was too harsh. Ferns tend to grow in sunny spots and thus fiddleheads are thereby often in lots of bright direct sunlight.<\/p>\n

I knew the light was harsh yet I photographed anyway — a failure of my “patience filter”. I should have come back when the light was softer or made a trip back to the house for a diffuser and stand!<\/p>\n

Resolving to do better this week, I headed out in search of fiddleheads again.<\/p>\n

There were broken clouds aloft so all I needed to do for “good light” was to carefully operate the “patience filter” and wait for the sun to go behind a cloud. A bit of flash (with a small plastic dome diffuser) off to one side allowed me to stop down the lens for the depth-of-field needed when shooting these small objects. I think that these photographs are better… what do you think?<\/p>\n

While “out and about” in the woods, I noticed that the trillium were in bloom so they had to be captured as well! Trillium tend to grow in heavy shade so here I switched to “Strobist <\/a>mode”: put the camera in full manual for exposure, use the shutter speed to “dial in” an appropriate level of\u00a0 background illumination, set the needed the aperture (dictated by required depth-of-field) and control the exposure of the subject by adjusting the flash power.<\/p>\n

Here are the weekend’s “keepers”:<\/p>\n

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