Flower

Love it. :)

This is one of the very first pictures I took as I was in my

photography class. Would you please critique it?

 

Thank you!

Shannon

I like the shot of the lilly, but the yellow in the blades in the background want to pull me away from the flower.

Not a bad flower pic - great colors. Some things that would make it better: 1) focus seems a little soft on my monitor, perhaps the image just needs a little sharpening? 2) as mentioned above, the background is distracting, using a larger apeture would have been better to give yourself a shallow depth of field - then you would still retain the great color tones from the background but lose the distracting detail. 3) get closer - the flower is really the most interesting thing here, but it's to small in the frame, get in tight and fill the frame. You don't really need a macro lens to do this, a short telephoto should be adequate. Good first shot! Keep it up.