Columbine

[Norm Dulak]

D7000 w/Nikon 105mm f/2.8 lens, tripod mounted
ISO 400; f/11, 1/160 sec; MM -0.33
Std CS6 adjustments, crop

Sometimes the best things are in your own back yard. This Columbine is at the edge of a large patch of them, in a garden surrounding our swimming pool and spa.

Norm

[Jonathan Ashton]

Love the columbine I keep looking at mine but the wind won't calm down enough! I like the spent flower in addition to the viable ones. Maybe next time take from a lower angle and I would suggest desaturate the green background a bit.

[Diane Miller]

Very nice detail and DOF on the flowers. I agree with Jonathan on the BG -- just too bright green. I'd try tweaking the hue as well as saturation, to move it toward being more analogous to the flowers.

[Norm Dulak]

Thanks Jon and Diane. I understand your suggestions regarding the background -- the flowers are delicate and pale in color, while the background is a deep, rich green. I decided to leave it that way, because it is an accurate representation of the actual situation. But I may experiment with making the background less saturated, to see how it would look.