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Taken at Rockefeller Park Greenhouse - Cleveland, OH

While scoping out the Greenhouse for a portrait session, I saw this single gardenia blossoming outside in the sun. The entire plan was beginning to fade and the few blooms left on it were losing petals fast but this little girl was hanging on tenaciously, not willing to give up its beauty just yet. I love the smell of gardenias, it always reminds me of my mother who usually has a perfume that she wears that smells like gardenia, and they are such a beautiful yet delicate flower that's elegant in design.

As always when photographing something light against a background that is either dark or you want dark, the camera tries to even things out and so you end up with an uninteresting background and a light flower that is too bright. For this shot, I knew I wanted to get the dark background and so would need to under-expose it. So I set it to -2/3EV (or -.7 on my camera) and took the shot and was happy that the background went nice and dark and the underexposure brought out some rosy yellow tones to the gardenia.

Description
Taken at Rockefeller Park Greenhouse - Cleveland, OH

While scoping out the Greenhouse for a portrait session, I saw this single gardenia blossoming outside in the sun. The entire plan was beginning to fade and the few blooms left on it were losing petals fast but this little girl was hanging on tenaciously, not willing to give up its beauty just yet. I love the smell of gardenias, it always reminds me of my mother who usually has a perfume that she wears that smells like gardenia, and they are such a beautiful yet delicate flower that's elegant in design.

As always when photographing something light against a background that is either dark or you want dark, the camera tries to even things out and so you end up with an uninteresting background and a light flower that is too bright. For this shot, I knew I wanted to get the dark background and so would need to under-expose it. So I set it to -2/3EV (or -.7 on my camera) and took the shot and was happy that the background went nice and dark and the underexposure brought out some rosy yellow tones to the gardenia.