Dahlia 8

[Anita Bower]

I had fun photographing the last Dahlia of the season, and it was a beauty.

Photographed indoors with Sigma 105mm macro, natural light, f16, 1/5 sec., ISO 160.
PP: levels, contrast, shadow/light.
I added two of my yellow textures.

C & C always welcome.

[denise ippolito]

Awesome perspective and I remember what a beauty this one was. I love Dahlias but this crop is super!! I feel nitpicky saying this but I might clean up that tiny triangle the URC if it were mine. Lovely work Anita!!!

[Judy Howle]

It is a lovely image and a unique crop. I like the textures, the colors and overall very well done!

[Arthur Morris]

Love the textures and colors. I am thinking that a corner to corner COMP might be stronger....

[Andrew McLachlan]

Anita, love the colors and the comp. Well done!

[Anita Bower]

Love the textures and colors. I am thinking that a corner to corner COMP might be stronger....

Thanks. Not sure what you mean by corner to corner. Do you mean having the petals start in one corner, say LLC and go to another, such as URC?

[Arthur Morris]

During capture, rotating the lens CW until the stem entered from the LRC would have had the petals pointing to that corner, so that would have been ULC to LRC (I think :))

[Arthur Morris]

ps: It is possible that you could do the same after by cropping especially if you have some extra all around. If not, you would like lose a bunch of pixels.

[Kerry Perkins]

Anita, I like the yellow-orange-green colors and the soft feel. A very small crop from the right would banish that little triangle that Denise is referring to. I think Artie has a good point about the comp, it would be interesting to see a capture like that or rotation of the image if you have the canvas.

[Anita Bower]

Thank you Denise and Kerry for pointing out the little triangle in URC. I hadn't noticed it.

I now understand about the suggested rotation. I may or may not try it. The image as presented was my vision.

Thank you all for commenting.:)

[Jim Bridges]

I like the shapes of the pedals and the soft color is wonderful... a delight for me to view!

[Christopher Miller]

Beautiful work, Anita! Very unique composition and I simply love the bright yellow-orange colors. Very well done! :)

[Dave Woeller]

Some excellent comments above from others. I love the angle that this is captured from, and for me, it is my favorite of your dahlia series

[Anita Bower]

Thank you friends! :-)

[Mark Fuge]

Nice image and application, Anita.

Nice vision! ;) :D

[Cheryl Slechta]

Anita, I love the colors and the perspective. It looks like a very elegant parasol:)

[Anita Bower]

Thank you, Cheryl and Mark. A parasol! Yes!!

[Dawn Currie]

Unusual and very effective macro composition