Seeing things in Black and White

[Zbg935]

I love flower photography and this is one of my best.



Nikon d3100
Focal Length: 150 mm
Aperture: 4.8
Shutter Speed: 1/500

Converted to B&W Simply by using iPhoto.

I was trying to create the most digital interest. Do you think I succeeded?

[windrider86]

Here are the guidelines/rules for posting in the critique section. They're chocked full of information on what you should be including in your posts. Thanks in advance for looking at them and including any missing info!!

[Zbg935]

Originally Posted by windrider86

Here are the guidelines/rules for posting in the critique section. They're chocked full of information on what you should be including in your posts. Thanks in advance for looking at them and including any missing info!!

I included all relevant exif data and edited it to be a specific question. Anything else?

[EGsimi]

to me there is too much out of focus, the fact that a section that is out of focus occludes the one in focus blossom is distracting, my eyes kept running to the edges of the frame, for me, its a little difficult to find my way in.

try cropping in the sides up to the blossoms (or some combination of right and left), it might help focus the attention to the in focus flower and force the eyes there.

Sepia might make it interesting.

Keep it up!

[wgrube]

Originally Posted by EGsimi

to me there is too much out of focus, the fact that a section that is out of focus occludes the one in focus blossom is distracting, my eyes kept running to the edges of the frame, for me, its a little difficult to find my way in.

try cropping in the sides up to the blossoms (or some combination of right and left), it might help focus the attention to the in focus flower and force the eyes there.

Sepia might make it interesting.

Keep it up!

I agree, cropping will improve the image a lot!