The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
This is a Wild Horse day lily and the first to bloom this spring. Light coming through the trees spotlights the stamens, anthers and pistil and casts their soft shadows on the petals. These are challenging sessions because the flower is at the end of a 2 foot long stem, the wind is blowing which shifts the plane of focus and the leaves filtering the light = LOTS of stinkers but every once in awhile the planets align and I get a result like this. >=))>
Specific Feedback
I decided to leave the pollen dust on the lower petal and brought up the exposure on the purple petal segments. Make the dust go away or leave it as is?
Technical Details
Sony A7rIII
Sony FE 70-200 f2.8 GM-II @ 200mm
ISO 1600, 1/50 @ f22
Gorgeous image of this rather fancy day lily, Bill. I can sympathize with the focus issue, I was trying extreme close-ups of a daffodil a couple of days ago with a slight breeze and didn’t get anything as good as I’d hoped.
Bill, this is a beautiful color lily. I hear you on trying to do any kind of macro/closeup when it is breezy, which this time of the year it is quite often. I’m good with the pollen dust. I think sometimes we want to clean up nature in our photos a bit too much just because we can. Nice shot of a beautiful flower.
Yes, Bill the stars aligned beautifully for this. I love how the anthers are so brightly lit. The angle you caught allows for the very contrasting BG to form a cool backdrop, while it also reveals all those stamen shadows. I totally agree with @Shirley_Freeman about leaving in the dust, an integral part of the process. A winner!
