Yellow Daisies

[TiffanyW]

I am looking for a little feedback on this picture.

I personally like how the focal point is in the middle, but I can't help but wonder if the mass amount of blurred flowers and super white background (which is a very overcast day, by the way haha) are distracting.

Taken with a Canon Rebel EOS T3, and the Canon 75-300 mm lens (I left my other lenses but fell in love with these flowers so I made it work ).

Opinions? Critique? Love? Hate?

 

[sm4him]

The "white" background, which is really not that white, doesn't bother me a bit. But the blurred flowers in the foreground and just the massive amounts of blurred flowers going in every direction, kill the shot, imo.
There's just too much chaos and my eye never settles on the in-focus daisies.

 

[tirediron]

It's a matter of taste; generally I'm not all that fond of OOF foreground elements, but what really catches my eye most are the bright, white-ish background areas. Remember that the eye is naturally attracted to bright over dark, so these are going to pull the viewer's eye from the flowers and to the background. I'd definitely go back and play with these flowers some more; I suspect there are some very nice images waiting for you.

 

[TiffanyW]

The "white" background, which is really not that white, doesn't bother me a bit. But the blurred flowers in the foreground and just the massive amounts of blurred flowers going in every direction, kill the shot, imo.
There's just too much chaos and my eye never settles on the in-focus daisies.

Okay. Good to know. I have a few other pictures that are not so chaotic that I will piddle around with.

Thank for the opinion!

It's a matter of taste; generally I'm not all that fond of OOF foreground elements, but what really catches my eye most are the bright, white-ish background areas. Remember that the eye is naturally attracted to bright over dark, so these are going to pull the viewer's eye from the flowers and to the background. I'd definitely go back and play with these flowers some more; I suspect there are some very nice images waiting for you.

I really like them, but perhaps when the composition is a little more thought out than just seeing pretty flowers and clicking the shutter button a few times, which is admittedly what happened here.

I have a few others that are not so all over the place and really focused on one or two flowers, but I really can't get away from that bright background.

Thanks for the advice!

 

[sm4him]

Next time you try them, don't shoot for the first few minutes. Just look. Get on your knees, stand on your tippy-toes, walk all the way around, lay down on the ground...look at them from every possible angle and try to "see" a final composition and what will look the most pleasing.

Can you shoot from a different perspective so the sky isn't an issue? Or wait until a day when you have some blue skies and clouds?
Here's one I shot of a similar bed of jumbled flowers, but I eliminated a gray sky by shooting down on them, and isolated one flower.

And while John is absolutely right, that the eye is attracted to bright over dark, sometimes it works, but again, it takes really thinking out your composition. Here's one where there was a similar white sky, but I again isolated the flower and took a different angle--and also filled the frame with it, to help aid the eye somewhat in coming back to the flower.