Lit Up Weed

This photo was taken on the wander earlier this week. One of the effects I was trying was with the flash, it was bright daylight but I thought by using the flash I could make the photo look much more dramatic.

So for this close up photo I programmed the flash to be very powerfull because I was using point metering of the stem. By metering off the stem this caused the background to be massively underexposed. This is the precise effect that I was trying to make, with the background being blacked out and the stem being very sharp and bright. As I was using the flash, the camera selected the aperture for me (in this case F8).

When editing the photo I decided to crop the photo to make it more symmetrical, I did this to enhance the composition. I also increased the colour temperature; this makes the photo look a lot warmer is another effect I like to have in my photos. I think the editing I have done has made the photo much better, particularly with the enhanced composition.

Bex and I have decided on our plans for this weekend, we won’t tell you them yet but there will be plenty of new photos to show you when we get back.

Mat