Showgirls
by yakatme

Comment:
Looks like 3 dragons.

If I'm honest, I don't like this as much as some of your other work - the lighting and very vivid colours are a bit harsh for my taste, but I'm sure you got exactly the look you were after and it is of course masterfully executed.

Beauty in Threes
by luvmyaussie

Comment:
Wow - is that a really subtle overlay?? What an amazing background effect it produces.

Great work.

Pretty Yellow Flowers
by TCGuru

Comment:
Perfect, perfect, perfect!!

I think this would look rather lovely in monochrome too.

You should consider uploading it to 1x.com too - this deserves to be showcased as widely as possible!!

Pink.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment:
Again, really nice flowers and the lighting is much better. The DOF is a bit too large to truly isolate your subject from the background and a wider aperture would have helped- I see you sot this at f/13; something like f/5.6 would have given you a better result.

Compositionally, I not sure you've cropped it in the right places, clipping the edges of the petals that way but I think your approach to framing the image this way with an extreme portrait crop is definitely the way to go.

Once again your excellent eye has found a really good picture and five more minutes of editing would bring your original alive.

Flower 2.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment:
This is a really nice flower but the image is way too flat. I just had a go at messing with it a little and it really rewards a bit of aggressive editing. I'd also clone out the white area top left.

Because of your good eye for a picture, there is bags of potential in this image but at the moment it goes untapped.

Whirligig
by pixelpig

Comment:
This makes for a very intense image - I like it!

Glory Of The Snow
by patio127

Comment:
Great image, the balance between the foreground and background lighting is bang on.

Azaleas
by Kelli

Comment:
I'm not a fan of borders, but I like the way this one complements your image.

Cathedral of Learning
by Paul

Comment:
I submitted this on 1x.com where it was rejected and subsequently critiqued; I agreed with all of the comments. In the final analysis, the effect probably isn't best suited to the subject. However, I do still like it but I think my recent attempts at Lensbaby flowers are better aligned with the affordances of the lens.

Thanks for your comment and interest.

Paul

MFSC #3 - Iris
by Denise

Comment:
Lovely crisp focus, vibrant colours and emerges wonderfully from the dark background.

Great stuff!