Untitled

Comments appreciated

Beautiful

The direct sunlight on this flower is rather harsh and it somewhat obliterates the delicate texture of the petals. Diffused light would have been much better. Whenever I photograph nature, I always take my 5-in-1 30" reflector set with me. It folds up into a package that is flat and about as big around as a basketball. The basic reflector is of a translucent material, perfect for a soft reflector or a diffuser. By placing it between the sun and this flower, you would have gotten a very soft and diffuse light, which would have been much more flattering and would have preserved the most delicate of details and textures.

I used some fill flash and perhaps that was too harsh. I have some without. I need to go back and look through. THe sun was not bright here yesterday. I was trying to use the fill to produce some shadows but perhaps i over did it some.