Amaryllis Bud

Love the image. Great texture and color. Not so much the bright border which is brighter than the brightest part of the image and distracts the eye from your subject. Regards -- Bruce

Bruce thank you for your comment on the boarder of this bud photo. I agree with you. I often struggle with the option of putting a boarder around a photo or not and specifically what colour that boarder should be. Do you have any guidelines on this.

I very rarely use borders. You could match the color of the bud (which it appears you're pretty close here) but you could step it back to 50-60% of that color so it doesn't overshadow the image. Or you could use a complimentary color, also running a a percentage less that 100%. Google search for a complimentary color to "cherry red" which I think your bud is close to as "Cherry red works well with azure, grey, light-orange, sandy, pale-yellow, and beige". You could also use a variation of the green in the stem and leaves.