Water lily

[Connie Mier]

At Fairchild gardens, trying to use some of what I learned from Roman; using center weighted metering (from evaluative), use of fill flash and some dof but not too much to leave the green stuff oof. I was trying to use the green plants in the water to frame the flower.
Sony a700
f/11, 1/800, ISO400
Thanks for looking
Connie

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Connie,
I think you did very well comp wise using the duckweed to frame the water lily! I do think you need to go a bit less on the yellow center......to bring out more detail. You can select just that area.....and either use color balance (add blue)......or desaturate the yellows only......in H/S......or sometimes a combo of both! come to think of it you can also go into selective color to pull them down. I think if you take the brightness down a few points too.....this one will really pop off the screen. A few minor tweaks to a nicely composed image!

[Bob Miller]

Just a bit tto bright in the yellows as already stated....nicely composed with nice light!

[Desmond Chan]

The yellow is the biggie. Did you soften the flash light? The light looks kind of harsh on my monitor. Sharpness, details and composition look fine to me.

[Mike Moats]

Hey Connie, a nice comp, and agree with others on the yellow, but the flower does a have realy nice pop.