Passion-Just the two of us

[selig1656]

P1090567 edited2 by Raymond Friedman, on Flickr

[Manfred M]

The light on the two flowers is quite beautiful. I'm not sure that the two green tips of leaves on the bottom add anything to your composition. As the subject is taller than it is wide, consider using vertical / portrait orientation rather than horizontal / landscape orientation.

[selig1656]

thanks

[billtils]

Raymond, I agree with Manfred on the green leaf tips (leave the stem though) and the crop. Not so sure about the lighting though. It is certainly well exposed but perhaps a llittle harsh?

[DanK]

Glad to see another person working on flowers!

I agree with some of the comments. A portrait orientation definitely would work better. I'd clean up the faint brown spots on the left. I'm not sure I agree about the leaves at the bottom; I tried it both ways. I agree that the lighting is harsh.

I don't know what you used for lighting, but you don't have to spend a lot of money to make it softer. If you are using a lighting fixture, one or two sheets of baking parchment paper make an excellent diffuser. I use two or even three lights in my flower photos, but one of them is almost always direct lighting with two sheets of parchment for a diffuser.