Paph. sanderianum 'OLS13'

[lienluu]

This is a first bloom seedling. Only one flower but it's very large. It just started to open a few days ago so it still has some time before the petals finish elongating.

 

[gore42]

Ahhhh... sanderianum How beautiful!

- Matt

 

[lienluu]

They are so difficult to photograph.

 

[gore42]

Lien,

Agreed, they photos must be hard to compose, and I know that they're hard to expose. This is one of those situations that auto-exposure won't work very well. Since you have those long petals, it means your photo has LOTS of that black background in it. If you want the exposure to be perfect, you'll have to set your exposure compensation at about -1 or 1.5 f stops.

With your D30, you can do that using the BIG dial on the back of your camera... and work it with your thumb. When you're looking throught the viewfinder and it shows the exposure, you can turn that dial (if it's on) and it will slide a little pointer to the left or right. Just remember to set it back to the middle when you're done.

- Matt

 

[SlipperFan]

A gray card behind the flower while taking a meter reading and then removing it before you depress the shutter all the way works very well, also.

 

[Rick]

Any sanderianum blooming is a Yahoo moment!! Good job Lienluu

 

[Greenpaph]

Fantastic!

thanks

 

[Gideon]

Fantastic