Coneflower

[Bob_B]

I was wandering through my garden this afternoon when I spied this coneflower dappled in the afternoon sunlight. I'm not sure of the crop, but I captured the lighting at the moment. Please feel free to c&c.

Canon 7D
50mm f1.4 @ 1/250 sec f/3.5 ISO 100
Lightroom and Photoshop postprocessing

Bob

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Quite nice.

[thierrylegros396]

Just at the right moment !!

Thierry

[Walt Roycraft]

Nicely done. I like the crop.

[francois]

Very nice image with soft colors and well chosen background. I like the framing and the distant flower.

[Bob_B]

Thank you to all who have viewed and commented. I greatly appreciate your responses.

Bob

[ThePhotoDude]

At first glance it is a beautiful photo, and well done on the technical aspects.
But, I can't help seeing a flower that is chewed up and missing petals on the far side. To me it is very distracting and takes away the gorgeous composition, focus and colors you have captured.

[ripgriffith]

At first glance it is a beautiful photo, and well done on the technical aspects.
But, I can't help seeing a flower that is chewed up and missing petals on the far side. To me it is very distracting and takes away the gorgeous composition, focus and colors you have captured.

I have to agree with the Dude here, although there are certainly times that a really chewed-up flower can make a stunning image.  Plus I see no aesthetic reason to have cropped out a chunk of the background flower.  To me, that really unbalances the composition.  FWIW, echinacea purpurea is one of my favorite flowers to photograph (or just to see,for that matter).

[Colorado David]

Nature can be messy.  Perfect flowers only exist in the Florist's Shop.  I like the image the way it is.