Jostein wrote: > Alan, > The second one is a really good image, imo. What I like in both images are > the highlights around the rim of the petals, and the composition with the > unsharp buds below. > > Found the highlight in the left part of #1 quite distracting, though.
My thoughts exactly, although I might add one comment. I think #2 may benefit from having most of the dark area at the bottom cropped out. That lens is fantastic although I try to stop mine down to f/4 or f/5.6 if I can, depending on how distracting the background is (DOF preview is very useful). Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/

