Colorful Flower Photo

[Pierre81385]

Hi everyone, I would like you to critique this photo from a color and composition standpoint. Does the color look too unnatural? Displeasing? Should I compose this photo differently? This is a (2500x2500) crop of a standard 10mp photo so I have some wiggle room to recompose.

Feel free to comment on anything else too. Thanks! ;)

http://fc54.deviantart.com/fs37/i/2008/288/5/3/Sunshine_by_Pierre81385.jpg

Taken with a D40X 50mm F1.8 at ISO 200 exposure 1/640.

[KarlosDaJackal]

The yellow is to saturated, it looks like that has blown out the details. Everything else looks good, apart from the out of focus flower that is a blur at the very front/bottom of the frame.

[Titus213]

Agree about the yellow a bit over saturated but I do like the colors and tone of the overall image.

[400dabuser]

Omg, apart from the lack of details on the flower, either to much exposure or to much colour, it is an awesome picture

[midnitejam]

Techical perfection be dammed, I like it. I like it a lot. I like the tones, the colors, composition and bokeh. The over-saturation and lack of detail in the flower bothers me.

[Pierre81385]

Yup that over-saturation is certainly a problem! I found its a problem with exposure (overexposed) AND the nikon "picture style" I was using (too much saturation). I've tried everything but I can't recover the detail in the flower; most of it just wasn't captured :(

On the other hand I thought it look sort of interesting to have a detail-less flower in the mess of stems and buds.

[midnitejam]

On the other hand I thought it look sort of interesting to have a detail-less flower in the mess of stems and buds.

That may be the reason I'm also drawn to your image--even inspite of my being an advocate of the "cookie-cutter" outputs.