This is SOOOO lovely! Gorgeous rich colors complementing the dreamy softness, and perfect light! A teeny-tiny nit would be the petal tip almost touching the right edge, but it’s too pretty to mention it!
Amazing picture, at first sight I thought petals were flames. I love the short DOF that gave that effect, in addition to the color of the flowers! It made me re-consider that DOF should be all the way for this kind of pictures. Same teeny observation as Diane. Very inspiring. Thank you!
David: I do love the softness you achieved with the very shallow DOF which renders this more artistically than if everything was super sharp. I certainly like super sharp images like Jim’s but this effect seems to be underutilized in current circles. Another unconscious effect is that we would expect something flaming to have a softness from the heat emitted. This is extremely well conceived and captured IMO. >=))>
Oh that color is intense. We react to color very strongly as a species and that’s what this shot is all about for me. The way the colors lie next to each other rather than bleeding into each other. I don’t think I ever properly appreciated that dahlias have different colors on the two sides of their petals, at least this one does. The right edge petal doesn’t bother me since I know full well how hard it is to cut off a scene like this - no matter where you do it, there’s a compromise. Really excellent even wide open.
David, this is a wonderful image. Although extremely fiery in color the softness brings the viewing temperature down nicely. Upon first look it reminded me of the Soft Focus lens I have and it’s neat effect. Truly eye opening to say the lest…
