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Gorgeous colours and I love the differential focus. If I was to be very critical I would like the front left stigma to have been in slightly better focus, I presume it was at a slight angle as part is in focus part not. Just maybe consider colouring or toning down the nearly white area towards upper left corner. I think the slightly off centre composition works very well.
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Thanks Jon. Is what I called an anther actually a stigma???
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Thanks Jon. I see the six anthers along with their filaments and I see the stigma. But what are the two large, tall green things in the original image?
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Not sure I would need a shot from further back to see properly. I presume they are inside this flower head? At first I wondered if they were ovaries??
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Yes to inside the flower head.
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Nice shot Artie and love the selective focussing.
Can't think of anything like the green objects coming from inside the flower-or petals. They look like unopened buds otherwise.
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Thanks Johnny. Unopened buds they are as per Denise Ippolito, the flower queen.
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Hi Artie. Beautiful colors and I love the selective focus (your eye can't help but be immediately drawn to the three anthers in the front) - and where you placed it in terms of the comp (and I'm usually a "more DOF is better" kind of guy).
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The out-of-focus unopened flowers add some color contrast.
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Thanks Steve and Ron. The funny thing is that I am usually a focus on the eye--f/5.6 or wide open kind of guy. Lot of f/13s and even smaller with the flowers.
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I agree with the comments. I like the soft "water colour painting" appearance.
Ben