Red Ginger

Alpinia Purpurea.

My mother brought me this beautiful flower on Mothers’ Day and I made a few shots of it while it was still in reasonably good shape.

I wanted to experiment with backlighting, but I failed utterly, and the background was partly washed out from the sun light, and partly mottled from the vegetation outside the window.

I applied three different textures of mine to try and salvage the shot, simply because I like that flower and wanted to keep a souvenir after it died.

Focal length 18mm
ISO-100
Aperture f/7,1
Shutter 1/5 sec.

Shot in manual mode
Nikon D60
AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G VR

Uploaded on May 28 in the evening for the Woman’s Photographer challenge, six hours after it opened for entries.