DOF?

Should I have opened up my aperture a bit more for more DOF or is there too much on this shot?  I used F8, 1/125 shutter, which is what I use for portraits.  One light, btw.

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Yep, I would have used 16
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I probably would have gone for a bigger DOF, but I like the petal in the top left blurring out of focus.  The only nit pick is that the red stigma looks like it's just sort of floating since the part connecting it (can't remember what that's called) to the flower is pretty close to the background color. 
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It largely depends on what you are trying to with the image.  For illustration, you clearly need more DOF.  For art, it gets really subjective.  Anymore I seem to be on a "less is more" trip as far as DOF is concerned.  I am shooting my 80-200f2.8 and 50f1.8 wide open and really missing my 50f1.4.

Ed
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Ed Farmer
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The only nit pick is that the red stigma looks like it's just sort of floating since the part connecting it (can't remember what that's called) to the flower is pretty close to the background color. 

Stamin?  Stamen?  Something like that.  Yeah, it is dark.

I was going for "art", not illustration.  This image is part of the group I did a month ago.  I was looking at some of the images I didn't originally bother to edit.  While looking at the exif data I realized I didn't put a lot of thought into the F stop, I was just using lens length to get a narrow depth of field.  Opening up would have given me more... but I wasn't sure if then not enough would be in focus.  I forget with non-moving subjects you can take your time and try different settings and then later see what worked the best.
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That answers my question, then as Ed mentioned, widest ap concentrating on the stamen.
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