Bleeding Hearts

[cdgaskin]

Apart from the blue in the top right....

does the dof help the picture?
anything else you can see thats wrong or right?



Camera: Sony DSLR-A350
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off

[gempics]

I love these flowers, they are beautiful!

I think that personally I would have tried to get a less distracting background altogether, such as by holding up a sheet of black card. Also, with reference to the DoF question, I do like creative use of DoF but I think it might have worked better in this case with more of the flowers being in focus, using a narrower aperture. However, if your composition was maybe changed so that the flower stem was going diagonally away from you rather than almost flat on, the narrow DoF effect could have a more pleasing impact.

Just my thoughts! Lovely pic.

G x

[tulsidas]

i agree with gempics.
your photo is sharp and nice, but i would try for other angels and backgrounds.

good work though

[praline3001]

Oh I love these as well....
problem one is you didn't sit down and wait for a hummingbird
These are like prime rib to hummingbirds LOL When I had a vine a few years back (before Katrina) The hummingbirds would stand in line for a bloom LOL

The blooms are good ~ real good but I agree with the background ... its too distracting. Could you do one of those DoF things to completely blurr the background? I am just a beginner so I don't like to give advice LOL
so what do I know?!