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The Colour Purple

Special Note: This photo has been published in a new book, available 7 December 2017, from Royal Tasmanian Botanical Garden.

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A beautiful, singular purple flower at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens - Hobart.

Photographic notes:
The magic of using a (super) telephoto lens is the "bokeh" effect.

I had other fixed focal length lens in my kit, though using the 300mm lens, I was able to use a very small aperture to improve front-to-back depth-of-field for the flower, yet render a very nice bokeh. The reasons for 1600 ISO were: It was an overcast day, and about to start drizzling rain, so not a lot of available light, though the photo was taken just after 1:00 p.m. on a Winter afternoon, in the southern hemisphere. Also, as I was not using a tripod, and not steady, I decided to use a shutter speed double my focal length, as a minimum. The combination of a maximum 1600 ISO and 1/640sec dictated f/10.0, though I would have preferred f/16.0, so there was a very real decision process for the photographic outcome I sought to render.

Cropping 6 X 6 or 4 X 5 offers other interesting possibilities.

A gentle reminder about copyright and intellectual property-
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Taken on: August 20, 2016

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Camera: Nikon D3X, f/10.0, 1/640 sec, 300mm, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D3X
Lens:	300.0 mm f/4.0
Aperture:	f/10.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	300mm
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Gain Control:	High gain up
Sharpness:	Soft
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Capture NX 2.4.7 M
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