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This decorative perennial, native to the Himalayas, grows to about waist height. The flower is about 10cm across. Here we see it with the sunlight shining through the petals, lighting the stamins from there base.
This was once a very tricky situation to expose properly, but modern spot meters and matrix meters can get this right on the first try. This particular picture was made with a Canon G1 digital camera which, in "manual mode", allows you to see the look of the exposure on an LCD screen before tripping the shutter.
The camera includes the following information with the original image file:
File Name 105-0524_IMG.JPG Camera Model Name Canon PowerShot G1 Shooting Date/Time 01/6/23 2:00:23 PM Shooting Mode Manual Tv (Shutter Speed) 1/125 Av (Aperture Value) 8.0 Metering Mode Center-weighted averaging Exposure Compensation 0 ISO Speed 50 Lens 7.0 - 21.0 mm Focal Length 21.0 mm Digital Zoom None Image Size 2048x1536 Image Quality Super Fine Flash Off White Balance Auto AF mode Single Parameters Contrast Low Sharpness Low Color Saturation Normal File Size 1384KByte Serial Number 105-0524 Drive Mode Single-frame shooting Macro On Owner's Name Gerald & Irmgard Carter