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>>203656 No, the crop won't do. One thing is that the angle is -very- common. It's where you usually see flowers from: straight from far away or above it looking down. Tiny little red patch in the ground or in a huge vine. It's been done many many times. Try looking at it from a different place or pick a more interestingly-placed flower, but try to avoid that kind of shot. Try filling more of the frame with the flower.
Lighting-wise, the problem is that youre using on-camera lighting, which gives that really strong/overexposed effect. It's generally tasteless unless you compensate for it carefully. Soft lighting such as that you can get with a lightbox off-camera flash, a reflector (as cheap as a sheet of aluminum foil) outside of the camera's field of view could help light it.
About the water sprinkling, I read it in that Digital Photography book, perhaps you got the idea there. That effect is exploited the most if youre able to give the drops an important role in making the picture more beautiful. Hosing down the plant added water, but the drops left on the flower are huge. Big drops might work, but because of the framing this time they didnt carry out their effect too well. Again, a closer angle of view could help.
Another thing you could do with that lens is kneel down to the flower's level and shoot from its right or left, so that the distance between the flower in focus and the vine/hedge is farther out of focus, increasing bokeh for a more pleasing background.
Is that better? :)
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