Yellow Flowers

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I shot these in our garden a few weeks back.



(Here is the rest of the set: Yellow Flowers - a set on Flickr)

EXIF:

Camera Canon EOS REBEL T3
Exposure 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture f/4.5
Focal Length 34 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire

I would like C & C on composition, lighting, exposure. Thank you!

[First Light]

*Crickets chirping*

[kelleyrie]

I'd like to see it a bit brighter and either a bit looser crop or a much tighter crop.

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I wondered about brightening it up.

Here are 2 others I took, one tighter crop, one not so tight:

[mrteacherdude]

I agree with kelleyrie about the brightness and cropping. The two additional photos you posted I think both work from the standpoint of tighter and looser cropping, and the tighter crop looks better to me; the stem and very bottom of another flower on the right side of the frame of the looser crop is drawing my eye away from the flowers.

To me it looks like your first post is a better photo than the others as it is more completely in focus. I am assuming of course that you would like to achieve as much DOF as possible. If so, then you could likely get a sharper image and deeper DOF by stopping the lens down to around f8 or higher. If your lens is similar to mine, it's sweet spot will be somewhere around f8 anyway.

Stopping down will necessitate bumping the ISO up and/or slowing down the shutter, maybe both. The original photo looks slightly underexposed, so a higher ISO or slower shutter could have brightened it up some anyway.