Great shot marianne, only thing id say is the bottom petal a bit out of focus, id liked to have seen that bit in focus, as to composition i think you got it spot on, i have white ones here, and struggled to find a way to photograph them due too the stem of unopened heads that are there. Just a personal opinion nothing set in stone from me lol.
it was a real difficult flower to get right, thanks for the comment though, I like to take my flowers in the garden with the sunshine on them, indoors you get all sorts of lighting problems. I'll try again later
I've tried shots like this in the past and they came out much the same. Very difficult if not impossible to get all of it in focus. Here's my best effort, taken ages ago on a Finepix A204 (no comments please - don't want to hijack! Just posting to highlight the point):
A really good shot Marianne - a little bit too much distraction in the background for my liking but that is just a personal thing ! And a little more DoF will probably sort out the oof petals ?
I think it's a nice shot too. Flowers abstracts seem work especially well with a very small DoF. I wonder if there's anything to be said for zooming in further? Just a suggestion inspired by this guy's flower shots: http://www.pbase.com/bishopsmead/flower_impressions
The only thing I find distracting is the rim of the plant pot in the background (well I think that's what it is ), maybe if your out having another go you could try different angles to alter the background, might work out well.
As for part of the flower being out of focus, I really love this effect, you can capture some very striking results from flowers using a very narrow depth of field (as can be seen in the gallery milou posted). I hope you post some more flower shots.
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