I spent a couple hours shooting this kinda stuff, it was a bit of a challenge to get anything usable, and I think you have to like this style to like this photo, but I thought this would be a good place (good cross section of photographers) to ask for comments.

Go ahead and tell me what you think of it. . .

Tony,
It's an intersting presentation. The colors are very nice. The motion of the flowers almost makes it look like distortion has been applied to the shot.
I find the different planes of the shot are really competing for my attention. It might be interesting to crop it somehow without the wonderful, unblurred BG, so the flowers and colors don't have to compete. Maybe they can stand alone.

I like your title "Wild- Flowers"!

thanks durwood. . . great idea!! Just for clarification, this shot is only PS'd for color, saturation, and a crop, no filters or blurring, it's the wind blowing the flowers which is why it was a challenge. I had to take about 180 shots and I think i got about 5-6 that I like.

d300 -
f22, 1/15 sec, hand held, fill flash, iso "low3" - about 100iso, 12-24, shot at 12mm, polerized. Here's a different perspective. . . .

I shot some wildflowers on vacation that came out about like this only without the neat bg you have,, they all got dumped. Your shot is diff, not sure I care for it though, makes my eyes go kinda goofy,LOL, DAve

Dalí Flowers?

:~)

Very nice both of them.

I like the wider perspective better.

I will write a better cretique when I get home on my calibrated monitor.

Wow, Tony, this is really different for you. Nice, taking a chance at a new way of viewing. You added some vibrance to the image. I prefer the verticle version. How would you feel about removing the red? Not sure what that is.

I would have thought I would normally like the horizontal but with all the movement in the mountains, the flowers make me a bit sea sick!
My eyes just do not know where to settle!

Which do you prefer?

thanks for the feedback. The red could be taken out, i saw that too, it's a blanket flower. I like the horizontal one best, but I think it would be better with a longer exposure only I could not get it any longer, I did not have enough filter. . .

I'm glad a few of you took a look and commented. . . this image, and others like them get such a range of responses from I like it to I dont, so dont be bashful if you dont like it, just tell me why you dont and if you do why you do.


thanks

Tony