PPal - Healthy foliage is easy when you've had 3 months with no rain and fivehundredthousand robins everywhere. Not much was eaten by grasshopper because of the robin infestation I have and very little blackspot due to lack of moisture. As far as red roses not being bleached out, first of all, I usually take my pics either early morning before the sun comes over the trees/neighbors houses or in the evening after the sun has dropped past the trees/neighbors houses (my front yard has a very small window of sun in the morning before I have to go to work.. and now that we're into later fall, I don't see sun until about quarter to 8 to 10 minutes to 8, and by that time I'm on the road already, same with the west side of the house due to the huge maple tree). But if I am actually taking pictures in the daytime, I change my camera (
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001SER49C/ Canon SD1200 Point & Shoot) from Auto mode to Program mode and adjust the aperture for a longer time (ISO400, whatever the heck that means). Some pictures come out too dark, but at the same time, Kordes Brillant actually comes out orange rather than washed out Tang-colored. Believe it or not, that's why a lot of directors don't like using red in their movies.. it's very hard to film. That's why car chases are usually with a darker colored car or a white/silver car and not a red car.. too hard.
Dukes of Hazard was a major exception to that rule, but at the same time, you never ever see the General Lee shiny.. it's always dusty. That way the film catches it without bleaching out.
