Pink Petals

[Ecirish]

So i had some cloud cover the other day and thought that i would try some flowering in the shade. I have to say I'm quite pleased with the results:


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EXIF: f/8 1/200 ISO200 at 132mm

I think my post-processing is decent, but i have a few questions

1. Is the vignette to much? are the fringes as a whole to dark?
2. Is the photo itself to dark, should flowers be brighter as a general rule

Let me know what you think, thanks.

[Loose_Canon]

As a professional flower photographer, I can assure you that this is an excellent photo. I take and buy photos like this from photographers all over the world. Not too dark and no burned out highlights - very lovely! It is very marketable as greeting cards & packaging.

[lputman]

This is beautiful. Which lens did you use?

[Ecirish]

Oh that's right! should have put up some EXIF: I will do that now. But it was the 28-135 IS which has kind of become my bread and butter lens now.

[lputman]

Originally Posted by Ecirish

Oh that's right! should have put up some EXIF: I will do that now. But it was the 28-135 IS which has kind of become my bread and butter lens now.

I've got that lens on my camera now and I'm finding it hard to take it off.

[Ecirish]

Originally Posted by Loose_Canon

As a professional flower photographer, I can assure you that this is an excellent photo. I take and buy photos like this from photographers all over the world. Not too dark and no burned out highlights - very lovely! It is very marketable as greeting cards & packaging.

Thanks for the compliment Loose_Canon! I've looked into a few stock photography sites to start to explore this. Seems as though some charge more or less for the same photo, so putting the photo on multiple stock photo sites would not be a good idea. Is stock photography the best way to get photos like this on the market in your opinion? or is there an alternate course of action you can enlighten me with? This is by far my best flower shot so far, and I'm excited to see what I can do with it!