Chevy
by Melethia

Comment:
Just brilliant. The coloration of this processing is just perfect! What did you do?

blissful kinship
by Retroesque

Comment:
I love this coloration - do you have a particular filter or preset you use? Perhaps it's Color Efex 'Ink' - but it's less purple than that.

Message edited by author 2011-05-04 08:38:49.

Bubbles
by Retroesque

Comment:
Super image. So well judged in every way.

11
by Retroesque

Comment:
Very nicely done. Fantastic tones.

I think I may have been tempted by a squarer crop but I quite like your choice of including that negative space. It would never have occurred to me.

From the porch
by aliqui

Comment:
This is fabulous! WOuld have got 8-9 from me in a Free Study.

Girl in Arboretum
by wheeledd

Comment:
I like this but I wonder if a crop to the trees might have worked even better - leaving us guessing as to whether this was a Lensbaby image or not...

Probably not the point for this side challenge though!!

Refreshments
by Germaine

Comment:
I do like this, quite a bit actually, but I think selective partial desaturation of orange would help the image sing.

Swangin
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
I like how the LB has given a sense of rush and movement to the image.

Rasa Sentosa
by Retroesque

Comment:
Very effective image - feels so bright and sunny. Almost sci-fi in its feel.

Coral Bean
by Ja-9

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club:

Hi Janine - nice to get another of yours from the queue.

This is certainly a full-on colour image! For me the technicals are pretty good (with a single caveat - see below) but I'm probably with the camp that subscribes to sometimes less is more. Having said that, I respect the way in which the images delivers the vision you had for the image (and indeed an interpretation of the challenge brief).

The technical caveat is the loss of detail in the highlights - we can see the detail in some of the upper petals and it seems a shame to see them disappear towards the lower part of the image where the harsh sun has topped out your histogram. I don't think you should have been shy of losing the background a little to black to preserve the highlights with your exposure - having the magenta emerge from a darker green/black would have been just as effective.

I don't normally like borders but this one is well picked.

Best regards

Paul