Red background for flower - does it work?

[AshNZ]

Originally Posted by RobSPhotoNut

Ironic that I have been thinking of different colour backdrops as you have done. I have been considering white, blue, red and maybe a green. Unsure of exact shades of the colours. Did you use velvet? I have heard, read, whatever that velvet is a must. It absorbs the light and does not reflect. It can be the "real" or the synthetic velvet. I keep a piece of black velvet in my camera bag for those just in case times. It squishes down pretty small and doesn't really weigh anything. Why the vignetting in the corners? Also, seems too much space on the left of the flower. For me, nice to see something I have been considering to see how it would look. Have fun! Kinda like it-------!
Meant to add that to me the focus looks a little soft and whites are a little blown out. Personally, I would try a lower ASA, a little smaller f-stop to increase dof. But, I still like it-------

Thanks, red is actually the color of one of my walls in the living room. It made perfect backdrop although I really like the idea of velvet. I can understand why it would be so good in these situation. Vignetting is perhaps because my 50mm prime is quite old. I would have preferred lower ISO too but this was taken handheld in indoor artifical lightening without flash, therefore I had to up the iso a bit.