From the course: Travel Photography: Costa Rica
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Photographing flowers in low-light (HDR single pass)
From the course: Travel Photography: Costa Rica
Photographing flowers in low-light (HDR single pass)
- If you love flowers, you will love Monteverde. On the mountains and in the forest itself, tons of great things to see. Slow down and capture some of these beautiful flowers. You can pick up a guide, or afterwards, look up the types of images that you captured and easily find them online. But within Monteverde, there was a museum dedicated to orchids. In the Monteverde region, there are over 420 unique orchids to that region, and these are great to shoot. When we visited this garden, I love the flowers that we had. They took care of them and had tons of varieties easy to see. It was a really rich-target environment. Now, the owners of this particular garden were fine with bringing in a tripod. I also recommend that if you're gonna go out and shoot flowers, bring that tripod. Additionally, I brought a macro lens specifically to shoot flowers. This allowed me to get really close, and to get great details. I was able to keep the whole flower in critical focus, or adjust my aperture to…
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Packing for a trip to the mountains3m 52s
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Advice when walking in a cloud forest4m 38s
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Photographing hummingbirds4m 27s
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Post-processing hummingbird photos11m 24s
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Photographing insects and reptiles3m 36s
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Post-processing insects and reptiles11m 26s
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Photographing flowers in low-light (HDR single pass)2m 42s
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Refining flower images - Part 18m 57s
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Refining flower images - Part 25m 45s
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Photographing the landscape in HDR3m 45s
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Stitching together a panorama photograph8m 45s
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Refining the panorama photo8m 7s
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