Wildwood’s Wildfowers

(Click image to enlarge)

I haven’t had much time to spend outdoors taking pictures lately, and when I have, the weather hasn’t cooperated. I managed to make it out for a couple of hours this afternoon. Unfortunately it was extremely sunny, and I have little luck shooting in full sun, something I will need to practice more on. I have been trying to work on my DOF and achieving the muted background effect. I seemed to accomplish that in the photo above. I also really like the way the yellow centers of the flowers really stand out. My biggest complaint (which, in my opinion really hurts this photo) is the lost of color and details in the petals. The flower was mostly an extremely light shade of purple and in direct sunlight. Obviously the combination washed out a little more then I would have liked.

I would really appreciate some feedback on this, both technical and composition.

My settings were as follows:
1/550 sec. - F/6.3 - Focal length: 57mm – ISO-64 (digital)

Slight crop and minor color correction in PSP9 (in attempt to add color to ‘white’ areas)


Thanks!!