Can anyone tell me

[Quo Fan]

What kind of flower this is?

I shot this in the morning with my tubes and adjusted the colors a little. There is no crop to the photo.

[matthewchj]

No idea what flower it is.

The shot looks good, except that it's a bit dark.

[baseballboy828]

Yea, a little underexposed. Try bumping up the exposure a little bit, and maybe next time using a diffused flash. Also, can you post the EXIF with the photo?

[jiminyClickit]

Quo Fan,

If you have time for a search:

http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/index.asp

[wulf]

It could be a yellow Aster but it is hard to tell just from the close up - I'm only suggesting that since I took a shot of a similar flower recently.

I think the picture would benefit from more light - you can't really afford a shallower depth of field so it has to be a slower shutter speed or adding external illumination (although being aware of the highlights you will get in the water drops). Personally, I would probably also want to move the centre of the flower away from the centre of the picture, down and to the left (... yes... my picture is not a perfect example of positioning either ;-) ).

Wulf

[Quo Fan]

Here is the new rendition of the flower. I lightened it up a bit, but not enough to blow out the highlights. Both versions were also sharpened a little.

Exif is: 1/80, iso 400, tubes.

[wulf]

It is definitely better for being brighter. What do you think of the idea of cropping it down a bit to move the flower centre away from the frame centre?

Wulf

[Quo Fan]

Wulf,

I've looked at it, and thought about it, and did the manual crop with 2 small sheets of paper, and I like the shot the way it is. To me, cropping the center out of the center takes away from the flower. Maybe if I had more of the flower to work with, I'd take the center out of the center. I don't, so I'm not going to.

Consider it me breaking the rules.

[wulf]

Your photo - your call. I wasn't thinking a drastic more though - just a small reduction to the bottom and left to reduce the blurred area in the bottom left corner.

Wulf

[jiminyClickit]

Since you like the edit you have, this is unnecessary, unless you like the extra richness in the center, in which case I would say it comes from adding a high-contrast and saturated layer at 50% opacity, overlay mode.