SittingPretty.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment:
Oh, now this is really interesting! I love the way the pollen is in focus and is peeking over the petal; the lighting with this background works really well too.

I See You.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment:
OK - the good stuff first: Great choice of aperture to get this DOF - it fits the image and also the general principles you have used for the composition are also good; it makes sense for the branch to exit the image at the corner.

I know you are happy to have some critique so here is my two cents: Although the main composition is OK, for me the crop at the bottom is too close to that flower and the position of the background branch is a little distracting. I've just had a slight play with it and rotating it about 5-10 degrees counter-clockwise seems to work quite well. I also think the image lacks a little punch - probably needs a little more exposure and a little more contrast - I wasn't too successful in trying that with this jpeg but it did get a little better - I also found that desaturating the yellow just a little really helped too.

Can I ask - are you shooting in RAW or just jpeg?

As ever this image has a lot more potential that what is on the screen - editing a RAW version would do justice to your good eye for an image.

I should put all of my comments in perspective; there are other contributing to this flower challenge whose feel for post-processing leaves me far behind so please take all of the above with a pinch of salt!

6528x1v1.jpg
by yakatme

Comment:
This is very beautiful but to my eyes the sharpness isn't quite there - or is it just me??

Burndt Orange
by FrostyPaws

Comment:
This is pretty spectacular, the sheen of the petals make them look like silk.

Red-Rose
by jomari

Comment:
I really like the rain on this but I think there is some missing information in parts of the image; I think I'd probably raise the black point and do a bit of highlight recovery... easy to say here though, without access to the RAW I'm in no position to give a fair critique of the edit. It's just the impression I get of what I would want to do if I were looking at this image in post.

Having said all that, it is a very attractive and well accomplished image.

Soso
by TCGuru

Comment:
I do like high key images but I'm not sure about this one. Kind of neither vibrant nor subtle. I wonder how it would look in monochrome...

Rain Kissed
by luvmyaussie

Comment:
The dynamic range here is perfect - how much of it is PP levels / curves? Or is it just perfectly lit and exposed?

This is the sort of work that makes me thoroughly frustrated with my own stuff! I wish I could pull this sort of quality out of the bag.

Pinks
by Pikkel

Comment:
Bags of potential in this image and nothing that a little editing wouldn't fix.

May 08 - Bug on white
by hajeka

Comment:
Great 'does what it says on the tin' title and a great image too.

Triplets
by Paul

Comment:

Originally posted by hajeka: Nice colors again. Perhaps a little more noise as yesterday. but the composition is great!

Yes, you are right - I don't think I round-tripped this to CS4 for Neat Image.

Thanks for the comment.