Here is the marsh marigold. These guys are very reflective. I used a diffuser and a polarizing filter cut the glare down.

Here is the phlox:

And here is the small flower that I don’t know what it is. It is smaller than the tip of my little finger. I put an extension tube on my macro lens so this is greater than 1:1.

Winter Aconite is a woodland flower that blooms early in the season—early to late February. It it a relative of the  buttercup.

These pix are from some I transplanted last year. They seem to be doing just fine.

The background for this shot is a fallen tree that is in the shade. This is on case where the sensor having less dynamic range that the human eye helps. Even thought I could see detail in the shadows I know that if I correctly exposed for the white flowers the background would go dark/black.

In this image I put my diffuser in the background hoping to simplify the background. To may surprise the white diffuser picked up the blue in the sky and made a very nice sky like background.

This first one I converted to black and white.  The large area of dark negative space stands up better than it does in color. And I do like high contrast B&W.

I exposed and developed this so that the columns would make a dark frame for a really bright Abe Lincoln to ensure the viewer’s eye went directly to him. And toned the text so that it was an noticeable as an accent.

In this image the Vietnam War Memorial takes up most of the frame. But compositionally it creates a set of converging lines who’s vanishing point is at the Washington Monument. Even though the Washington Monument is small in the frame and is partially hidden in the fog its brightest draws the view’s eye.

As a side note this is the original color file (note the red light on top of the WM) and is not a B&W conversion.

Anyway all that is fixed now. So tomorrow (or , later today; after some sleep) will be getting the formatting of the theme back. I really do not like the white background.

Currently using the default theme after upgading versions of WordPress. Will work on getting my theme to work after getting the other issues taken care on.

Thanks for your patients.

Part 1: What is White Balance?

Part 2: What’s the Correct White Balance Setting?

Part 3: When Should White Balance be Set?

Part 4: Setting Camera White Balance

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1. New slides in the Basic Panel for better highlight and shadow recovery
2. Being able to paint White Balance with local adjustment brush

And remember, even if you don’t use Lightroom, these new features will, at some time in the future, be a part of Camera Raw. So Camera Raw uses my want to take a look at all the new features. Very exciting stuff—local noise reduction, better Clarity, soft proofing, adjust the individual R, G and B channels with curves (just like in Photoshop) and more! Check them out.

This all means that even fewer  on my images will ever see Photoshop and that means less time spent at the computer working images. And hopefully that means more time of other stuff like shooting more images.

Just Google Lightroom 4 or go the the Adobe Labs Lightroom 4 Beta site to learn more and download the ap.

As with all Beta software you should not use it for production work. In the case of this beta you should not use LR4 to manage your image files. Continue to use LR3 for that. Use and play with LR4 on a “dummy” catalog.