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How can I improve this shot?

Started 10 months ago | Discussions thread
OP stevet1 Senior Member • Posts: 1,300
Re: How can I improve this shot?

Len Philpot wrote:

As with any of my advice, it's "for what it's worth" (and it's certainly easier to "armchair quarterback" than make the shot myself) but since you asked...

First, there's no strong compositional focal point. The yellow flowers are ostensibly it (being a different color) but they don't have quite enough visual weight

  • Composition: Come in closer on the yellow flowers, most likely the two together.

Len

No. Thanks. I did ask,and your suggestions were good.

That's the thing about the flowers. They're not yellow. Those Tiger Lillies are orange. I fiddled with the White Balance to try and bring out that orange, but it didn't help.

In the end, I think the leaves in front were in the sunshine, and the background was in shade. I had the camera in Auto ISO and I think it set the ISO too high trying to balance everything out. I think I should have just spot metered on the light foreground and let the background go dark; or do like you said and just isolated the flowers more.

Steve Thomas

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