What would help this flower photo?

[jlcarnagey]

Is it too busy, need cropped or ?

I'm here to learn. Thanks.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/2739188327_49805e0689.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jlcarnagey/2739188327/)

[Flo]

Not too busy to me! Lovely composition.what would think about a tad more light? Even without, its a framer.

[jlcarnagey]

Thanks for the advice Flo. I lightened it up a bit. I was afraid of blowing out the colr on the flower petals. Any better?

[Robert_Lay]

That's a much better composition and being brighter helps, as well.

[DEfinitivecars]

The second one is a little washed out to me... I like the first more. Maybe something in between.

[Flo]

The second one is a little washed out to me... I like the first more. Maybe something in between.

I was thinking on the first photo;)

[SolidxSnake]

Is that the original pic? I feel as if there should be a bit more to the right, or some of the bottom cropped off to make a more 3:2 ratio.

[frenchfx]

Cloned another flower in bottom right
Used a little HDR ReDynaMix to clarify and add depth\color.
http://frenchfx.smugmug.com/photos/348037393_HcLAP-L.jpg

It's really just a little washed out looking, an easy fix in post.
You can play w\different crops, as soldXsnake mentioned, or clone, I just, as you can tell, grabbed the flower next to it, nothing fancy.

[jlcarnagey]

I like what you have done Frenchfx. I'll have to check into these programs.

Here is the whole picture before I cropped out the weed blur in the foreground. I was actually using my 400mm on this one.