Yellow Coneflower

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Critique Style Requested: Standard

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Description

Yellow coneflowers are one of my favorite prairie flowers and was only limited to one shot due to the wind. Big flowers shot with a long lens provide some nice soft backgrounds to make the subject stand out.

Specific Feedback

Nothing fancy and this is a natural light shot taken during mid morning. Do these shadows bother you?

Technical Details

Z9 180-400mm f4 + 1.4x TC engaged (1/160 sec at f13, ISO 125) DeNoise, Levels, canvas rotation.

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Gorgeous image! Nicely seen and superbly processed.

Just wondering what a slightly darker background would look like. Your OP is fine, I’m simply curious.
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Jim: Brilliant natural portrait and great use of your long lens rig. Most excellent. >=))>

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Lovely! The shadows are natural and not distracting. Gorgeous yellows with good detail and a lovely BG. I could wonder about darkening the bottom half of the stem in a very subtle gradient.

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Thank you @NPN_Editor for the EP and @Sandy_Richards-Brown , @Preston_Birdwell , @Bill_Fach , and @Diane_Miller for your critiques . @Preston_Birdwell i did see a small thumbnail version of this image with a darker BG and it did look very intriguing to my eye. I may have to that. @Diane_Miller that might be a good rainy day project to try…Jim

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Only caught this now as an EP. I love the little spider silk on the left also. Congrats.