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Trichardsen [2014-04-13 18:04:26 +0000 UTC]

Critique as requested:
Not bad, not bad at all. I have personally not seen such a flower before and accounting for the focal lenght it seems that this is a rather large flower.
I think most on first glance want to capture the entire flower in the frame as you have done here, but when the background is straight down to the ground it becomes a less attractive option.
A shallow depth of field is what you use to isolate a subject from the background and in this case F2.2 just is not enough for the angle you have chose, that is why I would not shoot it like you have here.
I would shoot it from the side and use a much lower angle pointing the camera more upward, and just having part of the flower instead of the whole of it.

If your background is a tree that is 10 meters away and the sky behind it you can even go as high as F5.6 and still you would not be able to see what it is, that would totally isolate the flower, or part of the flower from the background.

Colour-wise it looks natural and I do not think much post processing was done.
What I would change to this image is to darken everything around the flower so nothing would compete against it for the attention of the viewer, as it is now the right part of the background is too bright, so the impression I am getting is "Nice flower, but a lot of clutter".

Otherwise you have executed this shot technically sound, the central part of the flower is tack sharp, so kudos on that, and overall this is a nice shot, but there is a lot more potential to compose differently the next time you are in a simular situation, but also for post processing some dodging and burning would bring this image more to life.

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slowdog294 [2014-03-27 05:31:09 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful.

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