Flowers C&C please

[stroker]

I have a few shots of flowers and a quilt that I would like some C&C on. Im using a minolta 35mm with a 35mm-105mm telephphoto lense with macro. All were taken with manual focus but auto settings. Any comments help! thanks for looking.
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[emac82]

#1 - I would have zoomed in more on the flower, I find the background too distracting and not able to see much of the flower..

#2 - Not sure what it is supposed to be, doesn't do anything for me....Sorry, just read that it is supposed to be a quilt, maybe would have worked if it was laying on a bed and shot from a corner angle...??

#3 - Not too bad, good detail....

 

[stroker]

Thanks.
1: would a crop fix this? I understand what you mean by the background being distracting.
2: Its a quilted wall hanging.

 

[mrpink]

Thanks.
1: would a crop fix this? I understand what you mean by the background being distracting.
2: Its a quilted wall hanging.

1. yes.

2. whatever it is, it is an odd photo with all the dead space on the left.




keep shooting.







p!nK

 

[SweetLeaf1189]

There's too much empty space in the first one but I LOVE the colors in it. I also really like the DOF...that's what you need for the third one. Also it's (3rd pic) a strange crop b/c you can see all of the flower except for the bottom half of one petal.
I can see how you were playing with DOF in the second picture, but I feel like the photo has no (interesting) subject.

 

[Tulsa]

1. Out of focus.
2. No clue what to say.
3. Needs to be sharper and more vivid colors. Also the bottom pedal is cut off.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

#2, try a vertical crop from halfway into the color of the quilt, ti nearly the edge of the dappled sunlight lines.

 

[reznap]

^ what bitter said.

Also, good on you for shooting film.. that's cool. What film did you use?

 

[stroker]

1. Out of focus.
2. No clue what to say.
3. Needs to be sharper and more vivid colors. Also the bottom pedal is cut off.

1: How is it out of focus?
3:The image is as sharp as it can be. Im using film.. If your talking about how it gets fuzzy on the bottom right I think it is because of the focus. What camera settings would I change to make the colors more vivid?

 

[stroker]

^ what bitter said.

Also, good on you for shooting film.. that's cool. What film did you use?

Thanks. I used what I could find in town, nothing special. It's Fujifilm 400 speed.

Also I like the crop. I have yet to get around to editing these shots.

 

[stroker]

 

[cardinals1970]

1. Out of focus.
2. No clue what to say.
3. Needs to be sharper and more vivid colors. Also the bottom pedal is cut off.

1: How is it out of focus?
3:The image is as sharp as it can be. Im using film.. If your talking about how it gets fuzzy on the bottom right I think it is because of the focus. What camera settings would I change to make the colors more vivid?

There are many different ways to make the colors stand out more with different camera setting or post processing.

 

[white]

I like #2 alot. Bitter's crop is also good. It's the only image I find interesting.