Purple Fire

[Gus Cobos]

Meet Miss Purple Fire; one of the locals at Pine Crest Gardens. The lady was painted with a Nikon D70s, using a Nikkor 200mm f/4D macro lens.

focal length @ 200mm / exposure mode @ aperture priority / matrix metering / 1/10sec. - f/40 / ISO @ 400/
exposure comp @ -1.3EV / white balance @ cloudy / AF Mode @ manual / color mode @sRGB / tone comp @ +1 degrees / hue adjustment @ +2 degrees / saturation factor @ +3 degrees / no speedlight / back lit with a flashlight and a 24" silver disk reflector / tripod assist /

Comments greatly appreciated...:cool:

[Lance Peters]

Love it Gus - Looks like a portal to another world. Lovely purple hues.

Well Done :)

[Sharna Lee]

Beautiful image Gus! I love how you "paint" your images.

[Alberto Oria]

Beautiful image Gus, very intense and dramatic.

[Alfred Forns]

You are coming up with some neat stuff Gus !!!!

Like the cropping and strong colors Might only try having a tiny bit of detail in the ur corner for smoother transition !!! Really good !!!

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Gus: Tremendous photo, super inovation with flashlight & silver disk. Love it . . . The older Gus . . 84 going on kid :D

[Harold Davis]

i love the idea and the execution!!! very well done!! looks like a colorful spotlight!!

[dawn campbell]

Out of lurkdom to say this is very nicely done--the color and the way you've used the natural lines in the flower make it stand apart from the crowd.

[carole wiley]

I love the flow of lines in this. You are killing me with these beautiful flower portraits, I am going to have to try to find some flowers now....

[Oscar Zangroniz]

One of your best macro's my friend. Very original. Excellent composition and colors.
A BIG CONGRATS.
ps: Hope you take this one to class tonight.

[Dave Slaughter]

Intense! Great work. Thanks for posting.

[Julie Kenward]

Gus, your flower images are really taking on a whole new dimension. Beautiful work again! You've got a lovely composition and your DOF is really nice. There's just nothing I don't like about this.

[Bruce Gove]

Great image Gus :D lovely feel and colors..

Bruce

[Anita Rakestraw]

Really does look like purple fire, esp. in the thumb. Intriqued me to open and look closer. Good work, Gus!