The Color of Passion | Jan. 24, 2013 | 12:04 pm | Benson Greenhouse, BYU-I Campus; Rexburg, Idaho | f/5.6 | 1/50 | Canon EOS Rebel T3
Bromeliads remind me of living in Florida. I found this one growing in the Benson greenhouse. I wanted to really underscore the brilliant red, so I added a soft black shadow around the edges in Photoshop by adding a black layer and then deleting a feathered rectangular selection from the center. Then I turned down the opacity of the shadow layer to blend it more gradually into the image.
Crystallize | Jan 09. 2012 | 11:28 am | Rexburg, ID | f/9 | 1/250 | Canon EOS Rebel T3
A far cry from the pampered bromeliad above, most of the flora in Rexburg pretty much looks like this: encrusted with ice and half-submerged in snow. Even so, it can be beautiful–I was mesmerized by the crystalline texture on these blades of grass. I had to raise the saturation and vibrancy in Photoshop to bring out the beautiful contrast of the yellow and green grass against the lavender-tinted snow.
A Light Hits the Gloom on the Gray | Jan. 24, 2013 | 11:40 am | Benson greenhouse, BYU-I Campus; Rexburg, ID | f/5.6 | 1/100 | Canon EOS Rebel T3
This rose looks large, but it’s actually really tiny–about an inch across. I’d like to get a macro lens someday so I can take even closer shots than this, but that will likely have to wait until I’m through school. I didn’t do any edits on this shot.
Simba | Jan. 20, 2013 | 5:09 pm | Blackfoot, ID | f/9 | 1/64 | Canon EOS Rebel T3
This is my cousin’s fat cat, Simba. He’s getting on in years and has all kinds of annoying and endearing idiosyncrasies. I had a hard time getting a good shot of him since he kept moving, and it was too dark to set my shutter speed any higher. I got lucky with this one. I increased the vibrancy significantly and the saturation just a little to capture the last glow of the sunset in his fur and eyes.