Practicing with Light
by RWTaylor

Comment by RedRuthann:
Well, your 'practicing' is great. Wonderful shot! Very soft, I like the lighting and the focus - great work!!
Ruthann

Practicing with Light
by RWTaylor

Comment by PixelatedVisions:
wow...I love this. The dof is great in my opinion and I just love the soft lighting and feel to this.

Practicing with Light
by RWTaylor

Comment by janfries:
very nice lighting effect.

Practicing with Light
by RWTaylor

Comment by mookyfish:
great soft pink

Practicing with Light
by RWTaylor

Comment by chariot:
I have found that the following comment is completely based on my opinion and not necessarily true techical rule. I think you need more DOF and I believe it should start from the front of your subject. For this picture I would have strived to have the DOF encompass the entire flower and then leave the other flowers on the edges of the frame out of focus.

Practicing with Light
by RWTaylor

Comment by anitra:
nice depth of field, details in flower

Practicing with Light
by RWTaylor

Comment by fsieradzki:
Nice but background flowers are distracting.

Practicing with Light
by RWTaylor

Comment by aripps:
more depth of field to focus petals in foreground would improve this picture.

Practicing with Light
by RWTaylor

Comment by bunnies:
I find the front of the flower distracting. maybe if it were in focus it wouldn't distract so much.

Practicing with Light
by RWTaylor

Comment by jmsetzler:
This is a lovely image.. the contrast is excellent... If the depth of field encompassed the front side of the large flower, I think the impact would be much greater. I feel that the large flower should be almost completely in foucs here. If it was to lose focus, I would feel better about it losing focus on the back side rather than in the foreground... = 6 - jmsetzler