She doesn't look like she's fading to me. She's just right. lol. Nice shot. The dof is perfect keeping the flower and stem all in focus and the bg nicely blurred but not so much that its distracting.
The brick wall behind detracts horribly from the subject maybe a bit of construction paper taped to the wall could have made a difference. The lighting is also flat looks like a midday shot so that takes away your colors quite a bit.
nice idea. I think the background brick texture is s bit distracting. Perhaps adjust camera to decrease DOF a touch and you'd still have the dark coloring. Nice details on your lily!
It's good that your lily goes off the edge, but not good that there's so much space on the right. It would better use negative space to se it on both sides of the lily.