Red

[nicuRNmama]

Picture of a red and yellow daisy taken at Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul, MN. I know its really noisy - not sure why I had the ISO set so high, probably distracted after coming out of a building. What do you think of the composition? Should I have left more space at the top above the red flower.

Thanks for looking.

Nikon D5000
Nikkor 55-200mm Zoom
ISO 2500
200mm
f/6.3
1/2500
taken 7/16/11

[nmajmani]

For some reason my eye is drawn to the yellow flower in this photo, not the red one. I think lowering the red flower,or cropping out the yellow one altogether would help isolate the subject of the shot. Right now I think both flowers are competing for the spotlight, so to speak. Also the photo appears to be soft, don't know if that's a focus issue, or a compression one.

[nicuRNmama]

Thanks for the suggestion - I tried a different crop of just the yellow flower which I really liked, but like you said the focus is a little soft and it didn't look good cropped in that far.

[mrteacherdude]

I agree with nmajmani; my eye is strongly drawn toward the yellow flower. I'm thinking it is because the bulk of the focused foliage is low in the photo along with the yellow flower, and the red flower is way out there by itself; this doesn't seem to be working well, for me anyway, in this composition. I don't know if leaving more space above the red flower would help, but since you mentioned that it is a possibility that there was some space up there that you cropped out. It's easy to try that type of crop with your original and then see how it looks.