The leaves have mostly gone from the trees now but the blueberry fields are electric in their vibrant colours.
Overview. In this area that is mostly forested hills there are large blueberry fields on both sides of the road. It mostly looks like a vast carpet of red.
To make any compositions I had to look for areas with some variation in tone or colour.
I used a polarizing filter to remove the reflected sky on the shiny leaves which helped to bring out the colour. It really was this red.
White balance was an issue with so much red. Compare the following two photos.
This one made with Fusion, which has no provision to set the white balance, shows too much blue as the camera attempted to compensate for what it assumed to be too much red.
This one was made in PureShot which has a white balance lock feature. I used a white balance reference card to measure the white balance and lock it and then made the picture. Much more accurate colour.
It was also very windy which no doubt interfered with proper registration of the bracketed HDR exposures.
Here is a motion GIF made from a Live Photo in ImgPlay.
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Overview. In this area that is mostly forested hills there are large blueberry fields on both sides of the road. It mostly looks like a vast carpet of red.
To make any compositions I had to look for areas with some variation in tone or colour.
I used a polarizing filter to remove the reflected sky on the shiny leaves which helped to bring out the colour. It really was this red.
White balance was an issue with so much red. Compare the following two photos.
This one made with Fusion, which has no provision to set the white balance, shows too much blue as the camera attempted to compensate for what it assumed to be too much red.
This one was made in PureShot which has a white balance lock feature. I used a white balance reference card to measure the white balance and lock it and then made the picture. Much more accurate colour.
It was also very windy which no doubt interfered with proper registration of the bracketed HDR exposures.
Here is a motion GIF made from a Live Photo in ImgPlay.
View attachment 101083
