Lotus
by Steef

Comment by mchalmers:
Nice. Effective and simple. Really like the dark water and the contrast in the white flower. Excellent use of DOF while still retaining sharpness in the photo. Very well done.

Lotus
by Steef

Comment by scottieham:
Beautiful flower. Very sharp. Great shot.

Lotus
by Steef

Comment by KarenNfld:
Beautiful colour and light, that's a gorgeous flower.

Back to vote, I gave this an 8.

Lomo Fisheye
by Steef

Comment by Melethia:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

You've pretty much identified your own issues with the shot. The plusses - clear, clean and simple and good use of the ghetto lightbox (which is what, exactly?). Good even light - all the stuff you need for good product or object photography. Your pick for this particular challenge may not have been the best - as you note, most voters won't see black as a "light" color. But it does meet the challenge in that cameras use light - hence there's that tangential tie in! Given that the average voter spends about two seconds, though, most probably wouldn't have thought of that.

The crop is what is most problematic to me - too tight to the left side for no real reason in my mind.

I think you have a good handle on why you scored how you did, but more importantly it sounds like you had a good time setting it up, shooting it, processing it - and probably learned more than a bit along the way.

Lotus
by Steef

Comment by zoodiac:
nice but this is not very good angle to take macros of blossoms or maybe then just zoom it to the midlle...
dunno
5 from me ;D
brano

Lotus
by Steef

Comment by WickedSound:
Pefrect focus, color, lighting and placement. Beautiful capture!

Lotus
by Steef

Comment by LVicari:
Super sharp! One of the best floral shots in the challenge.

Lotus
by Steef

Comment by npasel:
Everything works great here.

Lotus
by Steef

Comment by vawendy:
Nicely done. I'd burn the upper left corner a little more...

Lotus
by Steef

Comment by jgoings:
Good composition!