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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 829662" data-attributes="member: 48483">Forgive me for uninvited criticism. In general, it is easier in post-production editing to make a dark photo lighter than it is to make a light photo darker. Once detail is lost in a light-colored area, it cannot be recovered. So aim for being a little dark if you are not afraid to correct it later.The f-stop is your control for the focus depth of field as well as exposure. Lenses often are at their sharpest at or around f/8 (near the middle of the scale). Straying far from there is going to compromise something in the image. So I think the cat at f/22 is extreme, it might have worked easily at f/11 or f/13. It would have brought down that ISO for less noise.  I think you got the right depth of field for the flowers, but it is exposed for the entire frame when using a spot-exposure on the white-ish flowers might of nailed this photo. Remember, a bit too-dark is better than a bit too-bright. What I mean about the metering is you are using Matrix metering (and I use this most of the time myself) which averages the entire frame in an algorithm to expose things. Spot metering measures the exposure around a single spot in the frame and references the entire photo exposure to that spot. So the flowers being the focus spot and the exposure spot would have made it all darker, and also recorded the details of the petals better. In post you can adjust the brightness or overall exposure a bit as required.</blockquote>

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