close-ups

not posted any pics for a while, i got more involved with my other hobby for a while and have since began taking more pics, here are two from the last week or so that im happy with although i cant manage to tone down the light spot using lightroom on the stem of the bluebell in the background, C&C's always very welcome, thanks for looking

they are both great but I love #2

thanks eliza

I'm prefer #1, very interesting stamen...looks almost radioactive.
#2 could use more space on the left hand side and the focus feels a little off. The first of the petals aren't in focus but rather just behind. Might stop the aperture down for more DOF. I would also take the photo from a different angle so that the bokeh of the left hand flower would stand out more and not be occluded by the in foreground flower. I would also orient to get an all green background without the black at the top of the image. Having said that I like the bokeh of the right hand flower and the OOF leaves have nice lines.

Cheers,
Paul

sound advice mr. white....i'll be sure to follow it in the future, the setting i used were f9, 1/100, iso 100 at 40mm........the natural light wasnt too great so i powered the flash maybe i should have upped the iso, i did a little cropping to the left as it was a little messy, i know what you mean about shooting from a different angle to include the laft hand background flower, the trouble with me is i need to pay more attention to detail, once again mate cheers

Lovely shots.

very nice captures....

Rob,

thanks fellas