Sweet Pea

[rcarca]

Found growing wild in the station car park. It is past its best, but I thought the 5DMkiii just about nailed the focus. What do you think:


Sweet Pea by RCARCARCA, on Flickr

Feedback welcome as always

1/1000 expsoure at f4.0, 5DMk111, 24-105mm at 105mm, ISO 100.

Thanks

Richard

[tesarver]

Re: Sweet Pea

I would agree that you nailed the focus. Nice blur on the background and IMO I think the brightness is well balanced. My only suggestion would be to crop out the flower on the left and some off the top to give the photo more impact.

Tom

[jonesgj]

Re: Sweet Pea

Lovely colours. I would have been tempted to removed the bright grass(?) running diagonally in the bokeh, as I find it slightly distracting.
Thanks for sharing
Graydon.

[Stan]

Re: Sweet Pea

Agree about the focus but really the background is too messy

Stan

[Hereford_EOS]

Re: Sweet Pea

I would agree that you nailed the focus. Nice blur on the background and IMO I think the brightness is well balanced. My only suggestion would be to crop out the flower on the left ....

Lovely colours. I would have been tempted to removed the bright grass(?) running diagonally in the bokeh, as I find it slightly distracting.

Agree about the focus but really the background is too messy

I agree with the above, this is a lovely photo but those flowers immediately to the right and left spoil the impact.
I would be very pleased otherwise.

[rcarca]

Re: Sweet Pea

Hmmm, interesting, thank you all for the feedback. I am still uncertain on the basis that this is a now wild plant. If I was photographing my father's specimen, prize winning Sweet Peas, then I would take a very different approach. I wanted to reflect something of the wildness, but I obviously have not conveyed that in the picture, which has stumped me. Here is a second take:



Sweet Pea, Take 2 by RCARCARCA, on Flickr

Thanks for the comments so far, keep them coming!

Richard