A great big purple flower right "out of the box"

Somewhat amazingly, (for me), this shot has only been cropped, and resized for web with a slight bit of final sharpening added, no other adjustments made to it. It's not like me not not tweak the living daylights out of a pic! Is this a Columbine?
D2X/70-200/TC 1.4/fill flash



Flash Used Yes
Focal Length 210 mm
Exposure Time 1/250 sec
Aperture f/9
ISO Equivalent 400
Exposure Bias -2/3
White Balance (-1)
Metering Mode matrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Program aperture priority

 

Thanks Jerry, you're right,

it is a Clematis. I knew what the lady told me started with a C! Thanks for the clarification.

 

Glad you liked it, Brian

With my D2H, I *might've* had to do some color correction. For some reason, the D2H doesn't always show purple colors accurately.

 

Yup, straight out of the camera, Josh

Hey, I remember you from over at FM People forum. Nice to see you over here. I've always admired your work. To be absolutely clear about what I'm saying here, I shot this in raw, then in NC, I turned off the in-cam sharpening and used the amt recommended by Ron R for this ISO. I then converted it to tif, opened it in PS, cropped it, resized it, added a touch more USM, then finally, converted it to jpg. So, it that light, yes, this shot was "straight from the camera." That means I didn't play with the curves or color correction at all.

 

Thanks Mike,

I'm lucky to have such great gardeners for neighbors at my lake place! They love to show off their stuff too.