Bluebell Woods

force_ten

Waterlily24 wrote: »

Absolutely beautiful, the colour has come out really well. When I take pictures of our bluebells the colour seems to lighten.

taking photos of bluebells is quite tricky

it is to do with the way that the digital camera records the image that you see with your eye, shooting in bright but overcast conditions can have more pleasing results over bright sunlight

also if you are using a DSLR camera you mentioned a canon EOS then shoot your picture in RAW format and then you can use a photo editing software to scroll through the white balance settings available to you and also you can use the same software to adjust colour/saturation

force_ten

further to what i said here are a few examples, the picture was taken this morning using a canon eos camera set to record raw image files



original shot as it came out of the camera with the camera set to auto white balance, and picture style set to auto and the camera has made the bluebells look purple



the same shot adjusted in the free canon image editing software i have changed the white balance to daylight and the picture style changed to landscape and it has brought the blue colour back a bit



the last shot the white balance is still set to daylight and the picture style still set to landscape, and i have slightly tweaked levels and saturation

Waterlily24

Thank you very much. Must admit that I'm not very good with the EOS camera, I tend to use my Lumix one rather than hubby's EOS as it's much easier to use with the one lens lol!


All the pics are lovely, I think I like the last one best.

force_ten

here is one more from this morning



I dont know what camera you have but do you know if it has the abilitiy to do HDR pictures ?

this is a feature where the camera takes three pictures at slightly different exposure and combines them in camera to make one image with a high dynamic range and is a feature that is common on the newer compact/bridge cameras

Waterlily24

Hi force ten


Thank you for the reply.


My camera is fairly old but not ancient, it's a Lumix FZ45. Had a quick look and there is High Dynamic and there is 1/3 on the screen as well.


Is there any sound to say 3 pics have been taken? It just seemed normal to me.






Will have to try and find the instruction book!

force_ten

Waterlily24 wrote: »

My camera is fairly old but not ancient, it's a Lumix FZ45. Had a quick look and there is High Dynamic and there is 1/3 on the screen as well.


Is there any sound to say 3 pics have been taken? It just seemed normal to me.

not sure if the FZ45 can do in camera HDR, and when HDR is set you will hear three clicks and then a delay when the camera combines the images

FZ1000/youtube/Video

that youtube video shows how to set HDR on the FZ1000 and i would imagine the menu is similar to your camera

jrtfan

Lovely bluebells, force ten. Thank you for sharing your pictures.

MrsShazbat

This is half a mile from my house and I drive past it every morning. Photos of the bluebells never come out as impressive as they look with the naked eye though.

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--about/parks-woodlands--countryside/trees--woodlands/woodland-sites-and-projects/woolley-woods---ancient-bluebell-wood.html?useHighContrastCss=true

jrtfan

MrsShazbat wrote: »

This is half a mile from my house and I drive past it every morning. Photos of the bluebells never come out as impressive as they look with the naked eye though.

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--about/parks-woodlands--countryside/trees--woodlands/woodland-sites-and-projects/woolley-woods---ancient-bluebell-wood.html?useHighContrastCss=true

You're right, photos never really do them justice do they? (If only there was a way to capture their scent, too!)

That looks like a lovely woodland. I notice you have a couple of bat species living there too - love watching them flitting around at dusk.

Gers

jrtfan wrote: »

Look forward to seeing them, Gers. Lucky you, to have the bluebells still to look forward to where you are; ours here will be coming to an end for another year before too much longer

My garden bluebells are well past their best now. Here's a pic of my nearest wood. Photo taken with phone so I hope it's OK. This is just one corner of the wood, it covers about four times the size shown in this shot.