Reply #4 - September 07, 2008, 09:30:33 PM
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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