Yellow Goatsbeard

[Ed Vatza]

I led a hike yesterday for our local hiking club in one of our local State Parks. I couldn't help but notice a new crop of wildflowers starting to bloom. So I made some mental notes and returned early this morning with camera gear in tow.

This image was made using my Rebel XT with a Sigma 150mm Macro lens and a 430 EX Flash with LumiQuest Softbox mounted on a flexible bracket. The whole thing was then tripod mounted with a Novoflex macro focusing rail.

1/100 sec at f/22; ISO 800; -2/3 EV; FEC -1

[Bill Whitney]

Ed..well done. You have good seperation of the flower and BG. Wonderful detail.

[Fabs Forns]

Beautiful flower well isolated. Nice background too. I'd like a tiny bit more at the bottom.

[John Cooper]

An attractive looking flower Ed showing excellent exposure, detail and BG!!

[Mike Moats]

Hey Ed, very well done, good details and BG, agree with Fabs on the need for a little more at the bottom. Check back later on this plant as the seed heads look like giant white puffy dandelions and are very cool to shoot abstracts.

[Ed Vatza]

Bill, Fabs, John and Mike,

Thank you all for the critiques, feedback, suggestions and tips. Glad to hear that you all pretty much like the image. I keep working at making my images better. Here is one other image where I backed off just a tad giving a little bit more room at the bottom. Any thoughts?

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Ed,
You know I like em' tight........but now the sides are a bit............do like the angle and BG very much!

[Julie Kenward]

I agree. The bottom is perfect in the repost...just need a bit more on each side. Lovely composition overall and beautiful detail in the flower.

[Ed Vatza]

I have to agree which is why I choose the first image to begin with. Of course I could play around a bit with the crop on the second. And I have a number of other images of this flower to go through.

Thanks for commenting. Much appreciated.

[Mike Gallo]

Great job on the detail and bg, agree that it is a little tight