Flowers in Colour

A beautiful lotus! These flowers are difficult to photograph, you need bright light for them to open fully, but that often results in strong shadow lines on the blossom. The lighting here is soft and even and really brought out the petal texture beautifully. Excellent sharp focus and detail too.

This is such a different and unique composition! Excellent use of selective focus as well, with just enough detail in sharp focus. That well blurred painterly background in the same lovely colors as the blossom is beautiful. Love this low point of view and shallow depth of field chosen too.

From the lighting, detail, focus placement, aperture choice and composition, this image has everything I want to see in a flower photograph. The soft lighting really stood out to me, the shadows are a gradient of color and add wonderful depth. I love the perfect imperfections in the center and there is definitely enough interest in that area for the centered composition to work.

Akita is one of my favorite dahlias to photograph, this images is bold and beautiful! Focus is well placed and the lighting is nice and even, so important with this type of flower portrait. The photographer also did a great job handling the strong red color which can be tricky for digital cameras to correctly capture.

This sunflower is just starting to unfurl and that gives us a peek at the detail hidden beneath those glorious yellow petals. Love this close up composition and the detail, focus, simplicity and colors are just wonderful. Lighting is also soft and that really brings out some fabulous petal texture.

I love this trio of basque flowers! The low point of view chosen was perfect for these flowers. The care taken in this composition is wonderful, excellent spacing between the blossoms and the backlighting really highlights the texture in the blossoms, leaves and stems. Excellent depth of field and focus as well.

I love the simplicity of this image. There is wonderful detail in the allium, and the well blurred background sets the shape of the flower off beautifully while keeping all attention on the subject. Lighting is also gentle and even, and the composition works so well too.

The pastel colors of this dahlia are lovely. The image is well lit, and the off-centered composition works well too. The softness in the background petals simplifies the image well and keeps attention on the area in focus and the lighting is perfectly soft and even.

This is such a beautiful example of high key photography done well! I love the missing petals, giving us a look at the center detail.The lighting really emphasizes the petal textures, and the soft shadows add wonderful depth. The background is a true white and the image is perfectly exposed.

Flower groups are not easy to photograph but every inch of this photo is a celebration of the color and shape of these tulips! I love the point of view choice, composition and soft lighting. Focus placement was spot on and the aperture chosen works well too.

The painterly look to this image is lovely, it's also not overdone, I appreciate the more subtle approach to the effect. The image is also beautifully lit, and the well blurred background simplifies the image so well. Wonderful detail in the bottom blossom too.

This magnolia blossom is well lit and composed and the focus looks great too. The only change I would make would be to reduce the opacity of the texture layer, you don't want the background texture to be stronger than the petal texture of the subject. A simple reduction in the opacity of the added texture layer would make this image even stronger.

I love the simplicity of this photograph! That bold splash of red just pops right off the well blurred background, and I love that I can make out some of the wheat details too. The subject is very well placed in the composition and the photographer also did a great job exposing for that bold red.

Himalayan Blue Poppies are such wonderful subjects, the color is so unexpected and different. This photo is well lit, with a wonderful emphasis on petal texture. The only change I would suggest would be to go deeper in terms of depth of field to also get the center stigma in focus.

This photo is well composed and the lighting is soft and even, just as it needed to be. The only change I would make is in the focus placement, I think it's too far back on the center area. I would place to on the part of the orange stamen closest to the camera to avoid that foreground blur.