Pretty Flowers

[ChuckButta]

Took this with my 60D and sigma 17-50 2.8.
Took this is the lobby of the JW marrirott in Phoenix, AZ.
Very little PS, just some sharpening and level adjustments. Lemme know what you think !

[rick_reno]

very nice

[Clean Gene]

It's cool, but I think that the composition is just a little bit disorienting.

It might help to just really get in close, eliminate distracting background elements and just draw attention to the delicate detail in a single flower. That often works really well.

Another helpful suggestion...a backdrop or something might help. See, part of what's disorienting me here is that the depth of field is so shallow that not all of the flowers are in focus. There's only like, one stem that's in focus. As a result, the flowers are both the primary subject AND the background element.

And that's not even necessarily bad. What I think isn't quite working here is that it's all the same type of flower, and they're all the same color. So what's happening is that it sort of becomes "yellow flowers against a yellow background." It's yellow on yellow. And that lack of separation (color wise...you did a good job using depth of field to separate foreground from background) is sort of causing the background to merge with the foreground.

If the background is going to contain flowers too, it might help to at least have the background flowers be a different color. Preferably a color that works well with yellow.

Anyway, nice effort, and keep on shooting.