single photos Magnolia Madness

It has been surprisingly difficult to get a decent "keeper shot" of my Magnolia. Finally, I stepped away and decided to treat a group of blossoms more like a landscape...I was just trying to get too close with other shots. This turned out close to what I wanted. I set the camera to "soft filter +2" setting, put it in manual mode and used Sunny 16 rules for the exposure. I used Sharpen Edges in Photoshop to keep the slight softness in the larger planes, but to sharpen up the petal edges.