Two Anemone nemorosa reaching for the sun light!

Dear Skilled Photographers,

Using a 7D with mf-FDn200mmMacro with the lens on a tripod but with

winds blowing and thus moving the tiny windflowers and also I could

only use f/4 the DOF was quite limited - however by that there is also

some benefits in the area of creating a bokeh. I am quite new to really

work with the bokeh and with the DOF used in creative way in order to

give enough attention to the main subjects in the photo.

For many years I always struggled to get the largest amount of dept of

field and from this spring season of 2012 I started to move more and

more towards only tiny amount of dept of field.

But when you look on this one example of my "new" way of allowing

only tiny dept of field - would you still accept that the second flower to

the right in the photo is a bit out of dept of field because they are not

really in line?

I would appreciate your spontaneously thoughts what you feel or think at

the first glance of this one spring flower photo from this - for me - new

way of focusing on the main subjects alone.

Thank you so very much in advance and wishing you all a wonderful fall

with great photography!

All the Best!

Charl

Well, your picture is great. There is a great bokeh and I like the way they look surrounded by a blurry environment. Congrats ! 

I'm not a professional and can only offer observation, but it's quite common for the main subject (flower one) to be crisp and the background flower to blur with DOF.  The only comment I have on this image is to perhaps crop approximately 1/2 the distance on the right and top.  However, this is well done as is...  Mike

A beautiful composition Charl!

Wonderful all!

Best regards Charl!

PDE

Very nice.

The shallow DOF does a good job of framing the flowers, but there is a possible crop as Mike has suggested. The second flower doesn't look that much more out of focus, but its definiton is less tangible because of the lighter background.  I think there is a good arguement for the softer look and shallow dof images, particularly of flowers, it might even be worth experimenting further with f2.8 if and when you get the opportunity. Very well done Charl!

Best Regards

Alf

Your approach has yielded a very artistic image indeed.  The blurred background and colour allow the small flowers to pop out of the image.  I love the shadowed grasses - they look almost as though you'd sketched them in.  In my view, you've done a great job.  

Хорошо!