sunny sunflower - C&C?

[TeeZeeMee]

let me know what you think?
and how to improve

 

[MonicaBH]

In my nonprofessional and uneducated experience...

I think the composition and lighting are lacking significantly in both images, although the lighting is worse in the 1st image & the composition is worse in the 2nd.

There's potential for some good images in a sunflower field. Watch your lighting and think about your composition, and keep trying.

 

[Joel_W]

Not a fan of either picture.

Picture #1 is way too busy, and poorly composed. You need to be more selective as to your composition. If you crop it down to the tree line, the composition becomes way stronger, and has a viable subject. There would still be some other issues. 1st is the green leaf sticking in from the far right across some of the petals. It needs to go. Also the DOF should have been limited to just the flower, so that the background is much softer.

Picture #2 is poorly composed. You decided to keep all the massive amount of flowers on the left side, yet there is nothing on the right side to help balance it out . I would have composed it so that the largest two flowers were actually on the left side, and had a shallow DOF. That would have made the two main flowers really pop. Then there is the light on the petals, which is just too bright. It can easily be conrolled in PP editing. And finally, with the composition I suggested, I would have preferred a Portrait format.