Lupen Flowers
My focus point was the Lupen directly in the middle of the photo.
EXIF:
| Camera | D800 |
| Lens | 50 mm f 1.8g Nikkor |
| Focal | 50 mm |
| Shutter | 1/500 sec |
| Aperture | f/3.2 |
| ISO | 200 |
Let me know what you all think, and as always, ways to improve or what you liked about the shot. T
Thanks!
garyrhook wrote: The challenge with scenes like this (as I just dealt with in my sunflower photo) is that, close up, the flowers all vie for attention. You have to do more to make the subject of your composition stand out. In this case, telling us the flower in the middle was the focal point doesn't really help, I'm sorry to say.
For me, the most interesting flower would have been the one closest, on the left. Even though you can't see all of it. Using it as the subject, with a somewhat shallow DoF, allows us to appreciate the color and detail of the flower, but gives us a context as to where you found it (in a field of similar flowers). None of which we really need to see in any detail. The cool thing about that one flower is that it's already physically separated from the others, so you had an ideal subject to begin with. Assuming, of course, it was of decent quality.
I would also have moved to my right to remove the sky (and buildings?) from the background, and just had trees. The bright background competes aggressively for attention.
In this situation I would always encourage taking the time to experiment. Different apertures, different focal points, different perspectives. Move around. Try different things.
You know the light is not ideal, but it is what it is, right?
The colors are gorgeous.
I see what you mean, I did take some of those photos focusing on a closer flower and bringing those into focus more. I wanted to have a different kind of picture than your typical flower photo, I felt like the flower in the middle for some reason just attracts my attention and the others lead into it.
Moving to the right would have been a better idea, I completely agree that the buildings and sky do compete with the photo and take away from it a bit.
Thanks ubookoo, *facepalms* I never thought about cropping it a bit tighter
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