Anticipating Spring

[SquarePeg39]

I have my own critique on this as I think it could use a tiny bit more headroom but otherwise I like it. Your comments, suggestions and critique are always welcome.

 

[ZombiesniperJr]

Nice shot

 

[smoke665]

I agree with you on the headroom, but all in all I like this. The complimentary and analogous colors are easy on the eyes. The diagonal line created by the stem pulls the eye right back to the focus point. To often there's an attempt to isolate the flower completely from it's surrounding, but I think the soft focus on the green still gives you the sense of it's belonging, while not overly competitive for attention.

 

[Low_Sky]

My comment is as much a question as it is a critique; am I seeing some left-right motion blur (looking at full size in Flickr), or is that some kind of lens artifact? It's most noticeable to me at the white edge of the petal where the stem comes in, and the end of the right-most petal. I see a 1/5 shutter speed, so I'm guessing you used a tripod which gives me doubt that it's motion blur.

Edit: the more I look at this, I'm starting to think it's just an effect of the thin depth of field and those petals being on different planes than the pistil and stamen, which don't seem to have that same left-right blur. Nevermind then!

 

[SquarePeg39]

Nice shot

Thanks!

I agree with you on the headroom, but all in all I like this. The complimentary and analogous colors are easy on the eyes. The diagonal line created by the stem pulls the eye right back to the focus point. To often there's an attempt to isolate the flower completely from it's surrounding, but I think the soft focus on the green still gives you the sense of it's belonging, while not overly competitive for attention.

Thanks for your thoughts on this. I totally agree about the isolated flowers. I call them floating heads and it's a pet peeve of mine. I think having even just a tiny bit of the stem or some foliage makes a big difference.

My comment is as much a question as it is a critique; am I seeing some left-right motion blur (looking at full size in Flickr), or is that some kind of lens artifact? It's most noticeable to me at the white edge of the petal where the stem comes in, and the end of the right-most petal. I see a 1/5 shutter speed, so I'm guessing you used a tripod which gives me doubt that it's motion blur.

Thanks for your feedback. It is probably camera shake. This was hand held braced against the back of a chair. It was a quick shot while I was doing something else and happened to notice how nicely the tulips on my kitchen table had opened up. It could be slight motion blur if I bumped the table while shooting.

 

[Derrel]

Smoke offered a pretty good C&C of it. I might see if a tiny,mtiny bit more saturation could be applied. If the headroom is an issue, I suppose the canvas could be enlarged and then cloned it.

 

[SquarePeg39]

Smoke offered a pretty good C&C of it. I might see if a tiny,mtiny bit more saturation could be applied. If the headroom is an issue, I suppose the canvas could be enlarged and then cloned it.

Thanks. I desaturated it a tiny tiny bit so you would have liked the original file. I'm not a fan of pink when it goes into the neon/orangey range and that is where it was.

Also thanks for the suggestion on the headroom. I will probably do that if I decide to do anything with this one.