Lily studies

I decided to not take the camera with me last Saturday when I walked Toni because it was raining all the time and I didn't really feel like fiddling around with the tripod and everything in the rain.

However, when I arrived at one of our "race tracks" alongside the river Alz in the floodplain forest near Hohenwart, there were these really beautiful flowers that I hadn't seen before... so I had to return on Sunday and make some photos of them - in the rain, of course...


Turk's cap lily (FinePix S5Pro, 1/10s @ ISO 100; f/3.2, 50 mm DX)

The flowers are called Martagon or Turk's cap liky (german "Türkenbund"). A lot of small blackish bugs were all over them. The german Wikipedia article says that the scent of the flower is very sweet especially in the evening and at night - I was there in the afternoon and didn't notice anything.


Turk's cap lily (FinePix S5Pro, 1/55s @ ISO 800; f/4, 50 mm DX)

My practice of using the shadow white balance in the forest somewhat backfired on me here; there were different flowers, some were more in the shade of the forest, some not so much; the colors were quite different and I worked with the white balance, vibrance, saturation and color hues during post processing to get a more consistent look (I'm not totally satisfied with it but hey, its just a blogpost;-).


Turk's cap lily (FinePix S5Pro, 1/3s @ ISO 100; f/8, 300 mm DX)