Crimson Delight

In the sunlight and winds this flower was such an elegant crimson that it was all but impossible to capture the proper exposure. I finally retreated, flower and foliage in hand, to the house to capture the back of this flower in the still quiet of the indoors.

I used a tripod and a remote release and in this case, I used a flash. Manual exposure with matrix metering, un-cropped with a 105mm lens and a D700 at ISO 200, f/22, and 1 s exposure.

In this particular version, I add a black and white filter with reduced fill opacity to reduce the effect of the flash on the white portions of the flower.

My first attempt at processing this image was a black and white version which can be seen here ...

Thank you in advance, for your comments and critiques.

Carol