I do enjoy the challenge of a white flower. Did I succeed?

[JBW]

[Manfred M]

Pay attention to your background and to the edges of your image. The flower is just one part of the overall composition and all the pieces need to come together.

[Wandjina]

Pay attention to your background and to the edges of your image. The flower is just one part of the overall composition and all the pieces need to come together.

+1 from me

[JBW]

Pay attention to your background and to the edges of your image. The flower is just one part of the overall composition and all the pieces need to come together.

true enough

[Shadowman]

Focus successful, tones are a bit gray.

[Ziggy]

Pay attention to your background and to the edges of your image. The flower is just one part of the overall composition and all the pieces need to come together.

I agree. You can have a subject perfect in all ways but the background can kill it.

I do know that sometimes there is nothing you can do.

[John 2]

Brian, I think the comp is very good and you're virtually there but as Manfred points out, the BG is competing a little with the subject, particularly the bottom LH corner. Careful use of a Levels tool or even Curves will allow you to lift the whites in the Flower (don't burn out the highlights though) and if you have the selection tools available, you can push the BG down. If not, at the very least, burn in the most intrusive highlights. Something like:

[Loose Canon]

Underexposure notwithstanding you're white flower isn't white.

There is a color cast. Almost certainly from the green canopy (foliage).

[Manfred M]

Underexposure notwithstanding you're white flower isn't white.

There is a color cast. Almost certainly from the green canopy (foliage).

Yes - as a wedding photographer once told me. You sometimes have to shoot the bride under the tree and you will get a green colour cast on everyone and everything. Colour balance should be done on the bride / wedding dress and let the other colours be off; a greenish looking bride is an unforgivable sin in that business.

[JBW]

The consensus is no I didn't get it right but it is getting closer. Today I got my new glasses. Both for reading and distance. This might make a difference tomorrow?

thanks for the feedback

[Manfred M]

The consensus is no I didn't get it right but it is getting closer. Today I got my new glasses. Both for reading and distance. This might make a difference tomorrow?

thanks for the feedback

Only time will tell for sure, but I rather suspect you might be rushing your pictures.

My suggestion is that you slow down down; study your images either through the viewfinder or on the screen before you press the shutter release. This is one reason I am a tripod shooter; it forces me to slow down and I get superior images.

[JBW]

Only time will tell for sure, but I rather suspect you might be rushing your pictures.

My suggestion is that you slow down down; study your images either through the viewfinder or on the screen before you press the shutter release. This is one reason I am a tripod shooter; it forces me to slow down and I get superior images.

I am working on the slowing down. I also have just posted take two. the new glasses do help as does the re-calibration of my monitors.