I love the colors and dramatic dark bg. Nice light as well. I see possible post rocessing cleanup needed on the left side of the bottom leaf. Also a small little orange spot LL near the edge of the leaf. Hope that helps
Hey Bob,
On days like that at longwood it's best to use flash as main light! Consider the sun a fill flash! I still think this came out excellent....debated the upper leaf for a while and give you something to playaround with.....but I would clean up the few blemishes there at least. I had PS opened so instead of explaining...decided to repost. 4 degree ccw rotation and then crop and clean up. After I did it.....I decided I like the OP with the leaf....but decided to show you what I did anyway. Let me know your thoughts.
Hi Bob. Very nice job given the harsh lighting. An interesting flower with good colors. Roman's repost would be a viable alternate comp, but I, too, prefer the OP - I like the double diagonals of the two leaves. Well done.
Bob, I share your love of water lilies..and they can be SO hard to shoot once the sun gets a little higher in the sky. The trick is that with some of them, they don't open until later in the morning..while others close up by noon! You did a good job of handing the light and the shadows..the image has an etheral, dream-like quality to it, particularly on the pads...I'm leaning more toward the OP for composition. Nice capture!