Critique A couple of flowers.

It is raining out today. Stuck inside. Saw these flowers sitting on the kitchen table.
You can find art anywhere- even my kitchen. Just do not try to find food there.
10 minutes later-- these really look pretty good printed and hanging.
I am pretty new to this macro/studio stuff so please let me know how I could get better.
Thoughts?
Gary

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Wife wanted a horizontal print, so another version.
For some reason, I like this space.
Gary

 

Thanks all.
I tried camera position a little higher, but liked the simple edge better. Probably as I really do not know how to light glass. Need to play-learn-more.
Mike, what monitor are you using? I have a profiled coloredge cg222W and these little things you see are not visible in my monitor. Also not obvious in print. But they are there. You help keep me honest.
Monitor is old, may be time to upgrade.
Gary

 

VERY INTERESTING.
The first image is shot against a black background 12' behind the flowers. Light is flagged off. The background stays black.
I have no idea where the grid pattern is coming from- I did not see it. It has to be somewhere late in post.
This is a small image stack, but I confirm the background is ok in photoshop- so I doubt it was introduced there.
I do use topaz Clear AI in my studio workflow as a sharpening step. I put the workflow together before the other topaz ai sharpening program was introduced and just have not changed it. I suspect Clear AI introduced the pattern, it has been described elsewhere. I am going to reprocess this file and check each step- I'll let everyone know where that came from. Will likely be tomorrow sometime, but I am curious.
Gary

 

I cannot reproduce the grid pattern when reprocessing, not sure where it came from. Again, it has been described as an issue with the Topaz AI sharpening programs so I suspect it came from there. But I reprocessed using the same software and no grid pattern.
Screen calibration checks out ok- except for screen brightness. I always have to lower screen brightness down to almost monitor limits to get screen to match prints. When I raise the brightness the pattern becomes apparent. I have increased the screen brightness enough to see that. Will play with it a while and be certain prints continue to match screen. BTW, the pattern is not at all visible in prints on epson luster paper. It really looks the same as my darkened screen.
Again, that is why I post images here. I always learn something, understand more how others look at work, etc.
Thanks again
Gary

 

Thanks all. I composed it as a vertical, but my wife wanted a horizontal, as she was hanging it for a bit. I was interested that it at least worked as a horizontal. Always interesting to play with images.
Thanks
Gary