I finally made time to venture outdoors to see what I could do with my camera. I saw some squirrels and birds that I would have loved to photograph, but I don’t yet have a telephoto lens so that will have to wait for another day.
In retrospect I think I could have made this photo look even better with my 35mm lens at f/1.8. That would have focused more tightly on the flower. As it stands, I used the 18-55mm kits lens at 55mm.
I wasn’t able to get the camera to focus well enough when I was super close so I actually cropped this down from a larger image where the flower took up less of the frame. It’s the first image where I feel like the jpg compression took something from the photo.
I think some post processing could have also helped with the overexposure on the right. But maybe that’s part of its allure?