Thanks a lot for your feedback!
@delathorn
Yeah, I am contemplating a couple of ideas concerning composition as well. Attached another Version.
@kelaria
As for DOF, I know what you mean, ahem, it was my second shoot with a macro lense, the first one were anthropods on the beach, and here I experimend with a gentle breeze and shot 30 or so frames until I got this particular one I was looking for, more or less that is. <grins> f2.0, 1/80sec. The dynamic of the breeze was my goal to capture, which ain't easy.
@Geoff
The color is something I am very found of in deed. To get that, I developed basics in LR, blacks up 35,little bit recovery, liner Tobe curve, no sharpening, no denoise and went to photoshop. There I pre sharpened, then applied gentle s-curve layer, but used blend mode of softlight with poacity of 40%, added b&w layer, blend mode to luminosity and played with the light until I saw fit, then rezised for web and final sharpening. - A pleasant first result for that experiment. - Not so pleasant is that my lense is fucked now, the iris doesn't close anymore, so far my first two days in the makro world, back to my other lenses. LOL <grmmmbl>