Muscari2_2024-04-05 SW Michigan USA

Grape hyacinth looking up.

comments (7)

Christine Young

Lion

Oh wow, great shot! Posted one year ago

William Bodine

Lion

Fantastic shot with the interior well lit. Posted one year ago

Ferdy Christant

Lion

One-of-a-kind shot, love it. Posted one year ago

jerclarke

Giant Tortoise

Striking light and color! ???? Posted one year ago
1. Jon Reck
  
  Lion
  
  I used a warehouse bay LED source in the ceiling partially bouncing off the wall (diffuse 5K light from above) and a smaller 5K LED panel very close to the side, trying to pump as many photons into it as I could. In lightroom I pulled the shadows and blacks up and the highlights and whites down (trying to open up the interior detail and recover detail in the white collar). I also increased texture and clarity a little more than normal. Set the white point to 5K, that's about it.
  
  As I was using a reverse mounted lens on my macro lens the lens shade was about 3/4" (19mm) from the subject so there was not a lot I could do with the light. Posted one year ago
2. 1. Jon Reck
    
    Lion
    
    Oh- looks like I pulled it into photoshop to clean up the dust trails from the focus stacking. While I was there I selected the out of focus areas (background) and blurred them a little, maybe tweaked the exposure in the background also (I can't remember) Posted one year ago
  2. 1. jerclarke
      
      Giant Tortoise
      
      Thanks for the reply Jon! Very nice detail. I actually wasn't asking, I was just trying to use an emoji and it came out as "???". Sorry for the accidental demand! Posted one year ago

The Grape Hyacinth

Muscari botryoides is a bulbous perennial plant plant of the genus Muscari and one of a number of species and genera known as Grape Hyacinth. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant.

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Similar species: Agaves, Aloes, Onions

Species identified by Jon Reck