Loving Purple

[Mirenchu Fernandez]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3315/3510953145_e4b72bce99_b.jpg
I love purple...I want to see it purple! Nikon D90; ISO 200; 60mm; f/4.5; 1/500 sec.
Thanks in advance for your comments and suggestions!

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Nice shot Mirenchu. I added a warming filter (85) at 25 percent. Selective colour added yellow at 100 to the cyans, and then played around with the colour balance a little. Don't know what happens to the magenta/purples in conversion, but I get the same thing too. The Tiff can look fine but when you convert to jpeg they seem to go all out of balance.

[Alfred Forns]

Good point Jackie Those tones a difficult to reproduce !!!

I like the overall tones but having trouble keeping focus on the flower Might try a different angle and wide open to minimize the stem or ..... soften the bg :) Reworked the image with focal point. Did it strong enough for a recognizable difference, easy to affect the amount. btw same effect can be done all in PS !!!

[David Thomasson]

Very nice image, Mirenchu. The flower looks blue on my monitor. I don't really know the correct color, but I moved it toward purple with a selective color adjustment layer, making these changes in the blues panel:

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3138/selcol.jpg

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/706/purplel.jpg

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Lady Mirenchu,
I like the base composition, would have liked to have seen the background a bit more diffused, to have all of the attention on your "Purple " flower...:D:p...I like Mr. Forns' repost...The purple hues turn out looking blue sometimes, due to the camera's sensor...it has a difficult time deciding which color gamut to reproduce....looking forward to your next one...:cool:

P.S. give me some time to work on your image and I'll give you your shades of purple back...I'm not on my computer right now...:)

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Lady Mirenchu,
see if you like your purple Lady with a few minor changes to the background and foreground elements...:D:cool:

[Harold Davis]

i never seen so many reposts!!! all look good, but i have to give the edge to senor alfredo. i love what he did putting the focus on the beautiful flower. great base image, mirenchu.

[Mirenchu Fernandez]

Thanks to everybody! All the versions look beautiful -it's hard to decide- now I'm very happy, finally the flower looks purple!!!
Thanks again for all your help!