Wild! flowers

How do you capture the majesty of this scene? Appreciate some pointers on how to take 'em up a notch. They feel like they're missing a subject to me, or is it the composition. Examples welcome!

1. F4 @ 1/640 // A-DEP Mode // 24 mm // Tiffen CPF // ~3:00 pm and windy

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I think a different angle would look better. The composition on 1 just doesn't seem as interesting. The angle on 2 and 3 were better. 2 seems to be lacking a subject and the sky is blown out. 3 would have been better if there was a specific subject, or even if your used different dof. The foreground oof is distracting to me. The line where the flowers stop and trees start does not appear to be in a good place in the frame on either pic 2 or 3. Try taking a stepladder out and shooting down or at angle so that you only see the field of flowers, or try it late in evening when it has some directional light.

Great comments.

Compositional, IMO. These look like you were standing and just shooting across the field; since that is the angle that we normally see things from, it sort of lacks impact. Try kneeling, or even lying down and shooting more "across" or "eye level" with the flowers themselves; or, getting up higher, as SmilingFox mentioned.

Also, consider a different framing; below the level of the flowers, looking up - get them backlit - isolate a thick patch, etc.

SmilingFox wrote in post #12103921
I think a different angle would look better..... Try taking a stepladder out and shooting down or at angle so that you only see the field of flowers, or try it late in evening when it has some directional light.

Great comment, and thanks for the idea. I've got one in the closet that might work.

Have you got any to share yet? I took a drive to LaGrange yesterday and it looks like we need another week or two, along with some rain in-between, for the blue bonnets to burst.

gordholio wrote in post #12104330
Great comments.

A toast to our 101st posts!

Snydremark wrote in post #12104396
Compositional, IMO. ....below the level of the flowers, looking up - get them backlit....

10-4. We've got a patch of Spider Lilies down the road that should explode in the viewfinder with this perspective. (edit: actually Live View so I don't blow my retinas out my ears.)

Our bluebonnets are starting to come up, but not in great numbers yet. Very very soon though, I imagine.

SmilingFox wrote in post #12104961
Our bluebonnets are starting to come up, but not in great numbers yet. Very very soon though, I imagine.

With the lack of water down here, it wont be a very good year for the wildflower photos.

So far the only flowers I have photos of were in an area ZOO.

JTX wrote in post #12106334
So far the only flowers I have photos of were in an area ZOO.

Haha.

Flowers so far here..click.. <-- No kiddin either.

There are a few flowers on the roadside here, but I dont think its going to be much this year and wont bother with any pictures

GlimmerMan wrote in post #12103877
How do you capture the majesty of this scene? Appreciate some pointers on how to take 'em up a notch. They feel like they're missing a subject to me, or is it the composition. Examples welcome!

1. F4 @ 1/640 // A-DEP Mode // 24 mm // Tiffen CPF // ~3:00 pm and windy


2. F22 @ 1/100 // A-DEP Mode // 67 mm // Tiffen CPF // ~3:00 pm and windy


3. F8 @ 1/125 // A-DEP Mode // 105 mm // Tiffen CPF // ~3:00 pm and windy

I like the 2nd and third one as there is less sky. The sky is pretty mundane here. I would have concentrated on the flowers and green stuff.

JTX wrote in post #12106626
I like the 2nd and third one as there is less sky. The sky is pretty mundane here. I would have concentrated on the flowers and green stuff.

Thanks JTX. I liked the flowers and that's a great example of picking a strong viewing angle to isolate your subject... although, I've gotta say that 0010 with the mohawk takes-the-cake for me.

1. have the camera more on the field and not so much on the sky. It's a sky, nothing exciting going on.
3. would look better if your focus was in the foreground.

GlimmerMan wrote in post #12107655
Thanks JTX. I liked the flowers and that's a great example of picking a strong viewing angle to isolate your subject... although, I've gotta say that 0010 with the mohawk takes-the-cake for me.

Thanks.

Goofy looking critter isint it huh??