Point of Focus

Thanks for your critiques.

Interesting colors and composition, as well as good choice of focus. Nice shot.

The drops of water are nice. I played about with this a bit to see what would happen if tried to bring the flower away from the good dark background. (Don't know if it helps!)

Colin, thanks for your contribution, which is always appreciated. I'm not particularly fond of the grey background on my image and your version is lighter, which improves that, but the yellow seems to have lost its richness. I have an LCD screen which seems to be very sensitive to noise. I know that copying a file off screen and then altering it causes problems. I also thought about cropping some off the left but couldn't come up with anything that didn't just make it worse. When they bloom again next year, I'll take this into consideration. Next subject...day lilies.

Excellent, Hanna.... I love this... limited shallow DOF works very well here!