[DANNY454]

C+C Welcome

[Charlotte]

Can you post a larger size Danny? Can't see it well enough to critique

I like the title The flower does look fairytale-ish + like nothing I've ever seen before.

[DANNY454]

Sure Charlotte, and thanks on the name.

[Charlotte]

That's better, I can see it a lot better now

The most immediate problem with this image, Danny, is that it's not in focus. That will be your first priority when taking any photograph. If you have a tripod, use it! If you don't have one, you need to get one. Flowers are tricky at the best of times, and you really do need to think about how to get the shot in sharp focus. Here are some considerations:

• Use a tripod

• Wait for the wind or breeze to stop, even for a split second. The trick here is to set your shot up, so that all you have to do when the breeze stops for that one second is trip the shutter release button
• If it's a windy day, go for a reasonably fast shutter speed. Usually with flowers you'll work in aperture priority mode, but not always; sometimes, like on a windy day, your shutter speed is as important as your aperture size.

You have captured lovely vibrant colours here It does look a little oversaturated to me, particularly the background grass, which has become a distraction here mainly because it's very saturated + thus is as prominent a feature of the image as the main subject (flower) is. You don't want that; you want all attention to be focused on the flower, not the grass.

I like the composition although I would crop a couple of centimetres off the top.

As one of our fellow members says, practice makes better, Danny, so keep at it + let's see some more soon

HTH

[JMitchell]

Charlotte is right, although contrary to her point, not at any point have I ever used a tripod for my flowers....but yes not moving is an important point

[Charlotte]

Well Jack, just think how much sharper your flower images would be if you used a tripod

Ok, honestly, I haven't used a tripod in all of mine either, but hey, I'm trying to give sensible advice here, so back me up here Jack

And BTW, you forgot to critique Danny's image, so get back here and make a meaningful contribution to this thread

[DANNY454]

Why Thank you Charlotte and Jack. I know the pic is not every good...the reason is I was in a farmers hayfield and I guess he didn't like me being there so he got a cop and since when they started to come after me I thought I would give them a run for there money....haha And I did....out ran both but hey I'm 15. Anyhow wile doing that I sa the flower and ccouldn't pass it up. I think all try to retake it to night....it was getting late when I took this shot, the shutter speed was I think 1/60 and the aperture 2.6.