More pictures of flowers - Help wanted.

[Sgouz]

Here are a few more flowers I took the other day. If anyone has any advice for improvement, please share.

http://members.rogers.com/infocus/flower3.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/infocus/flower5.jpg

Thanks for the help.

[dewmuw]

I love taking shots of flowers!

The first seems out of focus - or maybe it is my eyes? :shock:

#2 is great although the pot in the lh corner is a bit off putting.

[Sgouz]

dewmuw,

Thanks for you input. In #2 I left the yellow planter in for color contrast, but I agree with you.. kinda distracting.

[DocFrankenstein]

I think the red is overexposed.

[gucio321]

I like flower macros... mostly because there is an amasing variety of flowers out there and also the way people chose to present them can be very interesting... that said I have to say that the first shot has ok composition however the exposure is way overblown and the focus is very poor... the second can be mostlikelly remedied by using a tripod and setting a timed realease for the shutter...that's the beautie of photographing flowers...they will not go anywhere
...as for the secon shot I think the composition is lacking..even though it looks like you have done a good job placing the subject according to the rule of thirds..but I think there is just too many flowers to look at... it might have been a much better shot if you have chosen to do a bigger close up and meybe present just two of the flowers...just my 2 cents...keep on shooting :D

here is en example of the composition I was talking about...hope you do not mind
http://home.cogeco.ca/~nmalinowski3/images/flower5example.jpg