Dry Wildflowers

[Anita Bower]

Taken a few weeks ago in either the woods or meadow behind my house.

Konica Minolta 5D, 100mm macro, 1/160 sec., f13, ISO 800, manual exposure and focus, WB: daylight, tripod, natural light.

That one little flower to the left that is a bit separate is me--needing a bit of private space, yet being a part of the whole.

Happy New Year!
Anita Bower

[Julie Kenward]

Me, too, Anita! Me, too!

I really like your long, sweeping composition. You've got everything that is important to the image in focus and still got a nicely blurred BG. I'd try to blur it a bit more if you can and would also suggest maybe bringing up the darkest tones just a bit throughout the entire image.

[denise ippolito]

Anita, This is lovely-I love the color tones and the composition!

[Mike Moats]

Hey Anita, I like this image. good diagonal positioning on the stem and like the gap between the singlw and the group. Good details and nice color wash in the BG.

[Anita Bower]

Thank you, all! I am enjoying getting specific critiques and suggestions for improvement.

Question for Jules: What do you mean my "bringing up the darkest tones?" Do you mean lightening them? Saturating them? As for blurring, I did it all in taking the image. I'm not keen on blurring in post processing, in part because I havent been successful at it.

I'm thinking that darkening the edges might help, to match the lower right area.

Anita Bower :-)

[Jerry van Dijk]

Hi Anita, compliments all the way! I love the combination of really complementing colors and your positioning of the flowers in the frame, which gives a perfectly balanced composition. Well done!