Reuss Griffiths wrote:
Very nice image for all the reasons previous viewers have added. Having take lots of flowers images and found myself "cleaning up" images in photoshop, I found it's easier to clean them up in-situ. I might have picked some of the over-the-hill blooms on the bottom of the left hand stem. Doesn't change the fact that's a great image.
I don't mind the wilted blooms; they reflect a bit of reality (I myself would have been plucked long ago). What I should have cleaned up, however, is that diagonal leaf at to bottom of the image. Once noticed, it can't be unseen. I shoot mostly hand held, so it's hard to pick out all the subtle nuances in a jittery viewfinder, especially if the lens is stretched out to 600mm equivalent.