Hyacinth

[Ec1981]

 

[minicoop1985]

It's a very pretty flower, but there's a couple points I'd like to make. One, the closest flowers are out of focus-this is because the depth of field was too thin for this particular shot. To fix that, use a smaller aperture (higher f-stop number), like f/16, and if possible, back away and zoom in to enlarge the DOF even more. Second is that the background is a bit distracting too-just play with angles. You'll see. What I like: you selected a particularly interesting flower. Developing an eye for the subject is a great start, and developing an eye for the final product will come with practice.

 

[sm4him]

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Also, watch your background. The dark tree and whatever that structure is to the right of it make a less-than-pleasing background. Sometimes you just have to work with what you've got, but it looks like if you had moved a bit to the right to shoot this, you could have the hyacinth in between the two trees and get it with the sky behind it, plus you'd lose that man-made structure entirely.

I also think this might be improved by including the entire plant, stem, leaves and all. Hyacinths aren't that tall, so you've essentially cropped its "feet" off. I tend to look at many of the things I shoot--flowers, birds, etc--the same way as doing a people portrait. If you're going to crop something out, do it intentionally. Here, to me at least, it looks unintentional, like it just didn't quite all fit in the frame. Either get the whole plant in the frame, or concentrate on just a few blooms. For instance, you could maybe focus on the three blooms on that stem to the right and JUST get them in focus in the frame.

That said, hyacinths are pretty hard to shoot well, imo. They are gorgeous flowers but it's hard to find a really good composition for them.

 

[Modifeye]

Hyacinths are fantastic to shoot. If you can get a few of them together, they make for a great composition. Also having a macro lens definitely helps too. Here's one that I shot a couple years ago.

 

[lambertpix]

Good points above. I do like the fact that you shot from the flowers' height -- it's too common to just bend at the waist and shoot. It can be really tricky to get a non-distracting background with flowers, but you'll get the knack. And yes, a macro lens really helps a lot.