I was practicing taking pictures, in Mom's flower garden.
I like that the main dahlia grabs your attention, the background gives a feel of the expanse of the plant with a little taste of the other blooms on the plant. There doesn't seem to be any over or under exposed areas that take away from the focal point of the picture.
I should have taken more time to analyze the photo on the spot. The Histogram was more to the left, so it is a little underexposed. The aperture was already maxed out so I could have played with the ISO, increasing it a bit. I also could have moved the focal bloom more to the left to see what that would have looked like.
Camera settings: Aperture f/5.6, ISO 400, Focal length 42 mm. I have a Olympus Evolt E-420.
The color is spectacular! The shallow depth of field really allows the main dahlia to pop out. You seem to have paid attention to the background, leaving lots of green & orange blurs, a lovely detail. I see that you were keeping the subject off-center, which is nice. What would have happened if you had included the flower to the left, allowing one to point one direction and the other to point the opposite?
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