Originally posted by hmirchev Thanks for the positive feedback. I never crop photos because even if you crop a little, the photo loses quality, and I feel like the way the Helios lens curves the bokeh around the flowers, the top part of the photo is essential in capturing that. Maybe a B&W version would be pretty cool though
Personally I disagree with this statement. If you crop an image you just slightly change the image size, make a better framing or use cropping to zoom in. You don't lose image quality that way unless you do heavy cropping. Resolution of modern digital cameras is very good and even if you do crop an image, it is still possible to make a high quality large size print.
Regarding your shot, it is quite nice, but I also find the upper part too distracting - it almost makes me feel dizzy. I would too crop it out and the result wold be much better I think.