This didn’t work.

[Pam]

I got right down low to get the flower in the foreground but the shot didn’t work. Possibly would have been better on wide angle and not on auto. What settings should I have used and is there anything worth rescuing?

Discussion

[Andrew]

The light in the background is very nice, sadly nothing seems to be sharply focussed – I’d want to get much closer and lower down to the flower so that it is framed by the trees (currently in the top right of the shot) and the width of the track is reduced. I’d focus sharply on the flower and deliberately let the background blur (set the lens as wide an aperture as possible). I suspect the focusing points were positioned in the centre of the frame – you need to move your focus point and position it on the flower.