Camera: Canon EOS 6D; Lens: 50mm

Aperture: F/4; Shutter speed: 1/250sec; ISO: 400

Cannonball Flower

SP reader P. K. Annadurai from

Chennai photographed this

Cannonball flower during one of his

visits to Pune. He wants to know

if and how the picture could be

improved.

Light tones in a photo always

project while dark tones recede.

You want the flower to stand out,

not the bright background on both

sides of the flower!

If I were you, I would have framed

the flower using a vertical

composition, which would

have eliminated the disturbing

brightness in the background.

In the edited picture, I cropped out

the bright, disturbing areas of the

background. But doing so left some

area on the left side (see the small

pic), which had to be cloned using

the darker bark of the tree. The

picture was then given a dose of

sharpening and a slight increase in

contrast.

Edited

Original

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Smart PhotographyDecember 2015

Rohinton Mehta,

Technical Editor, Smart Photography

Our Imaging Expert

No one can take a picture that everyone likes. But,

almost every picture can have scope of improvement.

Often, we are not our best critics, while others can

immediately point out the faults. In If I were you,

our expert comments on how your pictures could be

taken to another level.

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