Morning Glory Light

nikond40 early afternoon light auto- I don't usually shoot flowers but this afternoon this morning glory had such a special early afternoon light inside of it I was enchanted so I tried my best to get this enchanment- no ps work at just a slight crop from the bottom-

I like the picture Charlotte. I think it would have a lot more impact if you had the whole flower in the picture.

Ron

thank you! this early afternoon was a very challenge as the Glory was on bottom vine and the light leaving the inside glow -what was- what enchanted me so much-so I had to get in a position to catch That Light"
actually I kind of like the "non Cliche" look to the picture
it makes you look, doesn't it-

Charlotte-

Hi Charlotte,

It's a nice image with good highlights. But since so much depends on these highlights the petal behind the flower really distracts from the flower. It doesn't add anything to the interest of the image, it is just there.

It would be worth trying to reshoot the image without the extraneous petal. If not possible, simply clone it off and see how the image looks then. If I am correct it will be stronger.

I'd also clean up the semi dark line horizontal behind the flower while you are at it.

This is sort of a studio look image, and I think it calls for as clean a rendition as you can make it

It's quite common that the photographer loses sight of the main subject when starting out in photographing a new subject. Here the main subject is the blue flower with a yellow trumpeted base, not whatever is going on in the background. That detracts from looking at the quality highlights and color of the flower.

It'd be also worth trying to photograph the entire flower as Ron suggested. Only by comparing this version and a full-flower version can an educated guess be made regarding which one is the stronger composition. I agree that this is sort of different and "non-cliche" as you say, but that doesn't mean it is stronger. I recommend working towards stronger first then different second. Of course if you can do both stronger and different then great. However, this is more difficult.

ALain

Charlotte, it's a really beautiful shot. I love how it has the perfect exposure as to be mysterious and keep an atmosphere, while keeping the stem perfectly illuminated. And the range of colors make it a very delicate piece of art.

Sion
thank you-it was a joy *


Alain

I tried another shot this late morning fuller flower and light inside its lower body-
the sun wasn't the same place as before-thank you so very much for your insight-I am trying to make a better study of light-

Stunning, particularly the first. The image has "weight."

Doug

thank you! my favorite as well-

Charlotte-