I like this shot, did I compose it well?

[ednorm]

I wanted to have the background out of focus and the flowers framed by them. The green plant in focus beside them looked good, but now I wonder if I should have moved a little and left them out. Does this pic work for you?



Camera Canon EOS Digital Rebel
Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/7.1
Focal Length 149 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash No Flash


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[Michael_2010]

I like it. The grasses add a little context.

[wanderella]

hi, i love echinacea....it's the tennessee state flower.....i think if you wanted the grass to be blurred you could use a more narrow depth of field....f2.8-5.6 maybe....i snap these flowers alot and i find that i like the blurred grass and focusing on the flower alone looks good....and maybe a little color saturation in post production to bring out the colors.....but it is your art and this is just my opinion....good job.....

[leviathan]

I like your shot as well, and I'm chuckling out-loud because I'm a bit puzzled over the best way to frame those flowers too! As I am trying to imagine in which 1/3 of the image the flowers would be best framed, I am thinking that having them framed in the lower-left 1/3 of the image would be best. Speaking to this as a former film major, the human eye naturally prefers movement from left to right, as opposed to right to left. Framing the flower in the lower-left 1/3 accommodates that natural tug for movement.

[Fun4all]

Possibly trying a vertical composition to reduce the clutter and emphasize the vertical naturel of the galss blades and flower stems, with the blooms being the counterpoint. That would increase the importance of the blooms in the image. Attached is what I am suggesting, of course taking the image vertical is preferable to cropping a horizontal image to become vertical.
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