Are these with the 18-55mm??
You should try reverse lens to get a 50mm at least for closer up "macro" shots.
I just feel like some detail is missing in the flowers...
Your composition is amazing, but the detail is what I bothers me most

I think you should also stop putting those borders!!! They look like something from a scapbook!
Just put spaces between your photos here on jsp:

[img]your image[/img]


[img]your image[/img]

This post was edited by TheBlackRose66 on Mar 22 2009 12:43pm

the borders are just for fun

yep taken with the kit lens i agree the first picture is lacking a lot of detail. proberbly because i tryed to mf and its so fiddly on the kit lens as you know :S

thanx for cc!

Manual focus on a flower? Are you crazy lol!
Wind (Which is always there, even if you don't think so) causes any flower to move all the time. (Flowers are always moving, unless in a controlled place like indoors)
So manual focusing flowers is never going to get very sharp results because the focus will always be changing!

did i mention it was a bit breezy?!!

yeh ur right it was silly, especially with that lens. Anyways ill use af in future!

Nice shots!!
I love flowers
And I like the way the borders are assorted to the color of the flower...

Composition is great on these! Keep up the good work!

The second picture is really awesome and perfect but I am not sure if I like the first one that much though probably because it's not as bright as the first one maybe you should have used a more appropriate shutter speed or whatever.