[JMitchell]

What thinks you kindly pixaloers? Good / bad composition?





Jack M

[Dabhand16]

For me, the flower is too central, and the background too fussy. I'm trying to figure out why the petals and a leaf that is behind the stem are in focus, but the stem (if it is the stem) is not. Are there two images here?

Sorry, Jack My buttons are not pressed.

[JMitchell]

This is a very small flower, and those are all blades of grass. Was experimenting with aperture, and note I did not say "I like this", I don't really, and that's why I asked...

[Dabhand16]

Whew! That makes two of us!

I'll stick to what I've said already. Difficult to suggest a way of improvement, but if it was a small flower, I guess you were above it, so maybe a much lower viewpoint plus some variations in the position of the flower in the frame, and perhaps a portrait alignment might do the trick.

However you try, I think that it will be difficult to capture it without the surrounding grass and leaves intruding.

[Charlotte]

Originally Posted by JMitchell

This is a very small flower ...

It's even smaller than it was before some insect took a bite out of the lower petal ... something to watch out for in close-ups Jack, remember to choose healthy looking specimens

Since you're working on composition at the mo' Jack, which is what I've battled with quite a lot, I thought I would share with you a few quick pointers which I've picked up along the way + which I feel would be useful to you too. First + foremost, it's important to remember that composition is not merely placement of an object against a background. All sorts of factors affect composition, such as colours, lines + shapes, form, perspective + dimension. In this shot, you have the colour there - yellow is a powerful colour + blends well with the green in the BG. So far so good. Where lines + shapes are concerned, the image is a confusion of these, mostly due to the BG fighting the flower for attention because the BG is in too sharp a focus. Now we come to form, perspective + dimension, well there's not much evidence of any of these here because everything is too uniform. If you'd shifted your viewpoint so that the flower was shown at a slight angle, then you would not have the rigid 2D look that you ended up with here. Lastly, your subject, the flower, is very small in relation to the size of the frame, thus it's importance in the image has diminished.

HTH

[Dabhand16]

Very eloquently put, Charlotte.

[Charlotte]

Thank you Graham

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