Taken for me and by me (warning: subject inherently beautiful)

[LaFoto]

I just had to take this, despite all my resolutions never to go about our garden and take any new flower photos :roll:

Sometimes I just cannot contain myself...

 

[Peniole]

Glad you did, love the composition and background.

 

[PlasticSpanner]

NEVER? I don't think you'll manage that!

Nice & vivid photo! I like the combination of the purple and green & that leaf branching off to the right is just perfect!

 

[DigitalDiva]

The lines lead my eye around the image nicely. Colours are just gorgeous. DOF choice and focus is spot on. I'm with the others. Keep on making stuff like this!

 

[ClarkKent]

Holy purple flower, thats one of the best flower photos I have ever seen. Great work!

 

[LaFoto]

Thank you all and I shall go out and say Thank You to the flower, too, for growing this nicely, ok? For actually, what did I do but "snap"? It's the flower that is so nice!

 

[ravikiran]

What a beauty? I am ravished. That's so good of you to share it with us.

PS: You have done some fine work in PS to get the glossy look on the background.

 

[LaFoto]

Oh, Ravi, sorry to disappoint you, but - erm - this is just one of those photos that did not undergo any PS treatment at all, other than resizing and putting up the frame

 

[Nein-reis]

I'm really glad you took this... I must have a hundred of these in my backyard, but they don't look this nice. Wonderful! And I always enjoy flower shots... every once and a while.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

I sense a little inspiration from Astrodav68 here. Great capture.

 

[Mohain]

Nice comp LaFoto

 

[Tangerini]

Simply beautiful!

 

[NJMAN]

I love this shot Corinna! Wonderful DOF, focus, and composition. You certainly knew what you were doing.

Well done. :thumbup:

NJ

 

[Vaporous]

ooooooh you like color I love that! I hope you don't mind but the DOF has just a tiny bit of noise........I'm so amature and I know your a brilliant photographer cause I've seen it. I'm very new and have seen alot your work and I don't want to step on your toes.........the flower is beautiful though

 

[LaFoto]

Yes, Vaporous, I guess you see right, I just went to check the data on the three (totally identical) photos I took of that flower, and the ISO was set to 1600 for all - and here I was, thinking that the first was taken at only 400 ISO. But this flower was in deepest shadows, and with the lens pulled out all the way so I would get into its macro function, I needed a lot more light than I had previously thought.

All three look very alike and I THINK this one is the f9.0/1/125sec photo, after which I thought, hang on, this is too slow for the length of the lens, and then went to f5.6 and 1/400 sec, but those show even more noise than this one does.

I could have put this through NeatImage but ... didn't :scratch: !?!?? For some reason......... :scratch: !?!??