Magnificent rose, great shot!Saw in VB and came to see... The colors of the flower are nice and turns it more soft and beautiful, and you did capture all of this in your shot, in a wonderful angle! Congrats, fav, sure!
Nice shot but I would crop in more to make the center flower the complete focus. The background flowers seem to take away the focus of the main subject.
Thats a rare rose, fine, but your composition could be better:
- show the full rose
- crop the other roses or make them darker
To make a picturte more interesting, if you can, make a little droplett on the flower.
I like your composition, the incorporation of the flowers behind, both the in focus ones and the out of focus ones gives a nice emphasis to the main flower. Good Job.
Thank you all for the comments. Interesting that they're half and half for good composition, and for cropping the background flowers.
I prefer to do minimal photo retouching, and I personaly prefer the ones in the background. I'll try to upload some of the other ones that do not have anything other then leaves in the background.
You certainly couldn't beat these colors, and I'm glad that this was featured on the home page, as I probably would never have seen it otherwise. I think you did a tremendous job, just as you did.
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web." Pablo Picasso