Veronica hiding

momo3boys · May 18, 2012

I know everyone is posting flowers but I took this one today and was pretty proud of it. (Let me know if I shouldn't be, and why) I know the focal point in almost dead center..but it just didn't work any other way!

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momo3boys · May 20, 2012

That boring?

rick93 · May 21, 2012

I really like it. But who am I? Just a TPF noob (;
Too bad the focal point is pretty much dead center but it is still very nice, I really like the colours and the contrast.
I think that you can be proud of it.
cheers

gsgary · May 21, 2012

There is a bit too much clutter around it which draws your eyes away from the flower

momo3boys · May 21, 2012

Thanks, I noticed the brown stick after I posted it... I tried cropping it to make it off center but it just didn't look right. I never take pictures dead center but this one seemed to call for it.

cgipson1 · May 21, 2012

obviously you were going for a framed shot of the subject... but the subject is so small overall, the photo loses interest. Try cropping to leave some of the grass framing the subject, but get rid of a lot of the dead space on the sides. Center is not always bad.. depending on how you shoot. Leave it centered... just crop it tighter. Or maybe a crop to put the flower off center on the left.. and frame it between the large vertical grass right next to the flower left.. and the other grass.. much farther right. I am in the field right now.. and lack the ability to edit images, or I would demo for you....

Jaemie · May 21, 2012

Here's a alternative. Not much you can do about that brown stick, but it does complement the flower in some unexpected way. By cropping out the stick's broken end, it is less distracting.

cgipson1 · May 21, 2012

It would be very easy to clone out the brown stick in Photoshop...

Joel_W · May 21, 2012

Charlie's suggestions are dead on. The subject is so small, it's hard to see it at 1st. Jaemie's crop is pretty close to what it should be.

HughGuessWho · May 21, 2012

Jaemie said:
Here's a alternative. Not much you can do about that brown stick, but it does complement the flower in some unexpected way. By cropping out the stick's broken end, it is less distracting.

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Much more appealing to the eye.

momo3boys · May 21, 2012

Its a pretty cropped option, but I was trying to get the perspective of small hiding flower surrounded by grass... They bloom all summer so I have plenty of chances to get it better.