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Wow! That is a beautiful shot! There’s something about the lighting that makes it look like it’s glowing in the middle. It’s nice and sharp too! (Of course, on a picture like this, it’s hard to tell if it’s sharp or not without pixel-peeping)
One thing about it though, it’s a very common pose for a rose. I know how hard it is to find a different angle/composition that really looks good. Here are some attempts of mine a while back to get a “different” rose picture. I was experimenting with different lighting, and I never really did get what I was aiming for, but these are the results.
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There’s not much to be said about this shot. Pictures of flowers are very common, but it’s not common to find roses without any blemish whatsoever.
Your composition reminded me a lot of what I was reading today in Visual Flow, by Ian Plant. Talking about ways to master center compositions, he says “A curve, however, by its very nature creates energy, as its zigzagging shape gets the eye moving left and right, away from the center. The result is a centered subject that is also dynamic.” Spirals , like the ones in this rose picture, produce the same effect.
For more on mastering center compositions, take a look at this article by Ian: The Much-Maligned Centered Composition.
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