Strange Marguerite

[Bo_]

I took this picture of a marguerite (yes - it is a marguerite) yesterday. It seems to fold the flower pedals in a funny way before it unfolds. The flower is NOT manipulated in any way.

I tried to enhance the flower by removing the green leaves from the picture- giving the flower a black background (ok - a little manipulation).

I used my canon powershot s3is with the following settings:
Exposure: 1/400s, Aperture: f/3.2, ISO: 100 & a exposure Bias of -1/3EV. The bias was used, because of a bright sunshine.

I would like to hear your opinion on the shoot - both the technique and the flower (sorry for not being very specific…).

[Booter]

good stuff with the Powershot. My mom has one of those. I generally don't like flat dark backgrounds but this is an exception. The darkest parts of the petals make it work.

[Liz Caldwell]

nice job! very cool flower too. I don't see where you cloned the leaves out, so well done on that too. Black wasn't the original background color? Again, well done!

[krypticide]

Cool shot with great lighting, real background or not.

[Bo_]

Thanx for the critique..

I don't see where you cloned the leaves out, so well done on that too. Black wasn't the original background color?

Regarding the background colour - the leaves were quite dark (some places black) - because there were a shadow that covered them and the exposure bias made them even darker. So they weren’t so difficult to remove.

Regarding the marguerite - I was told that it is a Spanish marguerite - so its not so strange to me anymore.