About the Image(s)

This bloom was captured as a single image at the Berkley Botanical Gardens in April 2025. Here I used my Canon R5 MII camera with a 100 mm f/2.8 macro lens (1/2,000 sec, f/11, ISO 3,200). There was a lot of wind so I had to select settings that would allow a fast shutter speed (thus the capture at 1/ 2,000 sec with ISO 3,200). As you would expect there was a fair amount of noise to deal with, but Topaz Photo AI did a great job here. In this case I was looking for as clean as a presentation as I could get. I have included a copy of the image right out of the camera so you can see what I had as a starting place.