An Earthen Touch
by HRoxas

Comment by CalliopeKel:
Oh you should have entered it. I would have given it a 10. I found the textures challenge to be a little boring. This would have livend things up a bit. I love the soft background and warm colors.

An Earthen Touch
by HRoxas

Comment by arpita:
Excellent! Lovely light, and the warm tone is extremely beautiful.

Rouge
by HRoxas

Comment by savannahjames:
Beautiful focus and color. Love the water drops that are clear in the middle. Great shot!

Rouge
by HRoxas

Comment by HBunch:
Nice focus and the DOF is good here. Lighting seems a bit harsh though. Th berries have bright light reflections on them and the shadows also seem like a bit of a distraction. Background is nice, nothing distracting there. I like the diagonal placement of the stem. I think a different crop of the right might have been a wiser choice. Maybe not to cut off the right side of the stem/leaves. Waterdrops add interest to the photo as well. I like how they are there...but not overdone. ~Heather~

Rouge
by HRoxas

Comment by Ram21:
I like the shadows, good color.

Rouge
by HRoxas

Comment by muggle_girl:
beautiful colours and they look good enough to eat, love the water drops too

Three Daisies
by HRoxas

Comment by singsunshine:
Ran accross your photo in the least commented photos. This is truly amazing! I can't believe no one has commented on this. The contrasting colors are sooo beautiful. I think the crop is perfect. The lighting really makes the colors pop! I honestly can not find a thing that I would change. Great job!

Coming Through
by HRoxas

Comment by HBunch:
*Critique Club*

My first impression was that this looked really photoshopped. I see a couple people thought the same thing. Your details don't seem like 'too much editing', but it's hard to say exactly what was edited by the details. It just has a feeling of being heavily edited.
The one thing I did notice and you already know about is the purple around the blown out area of light in the celieng. With all the editing you did, you'd think you could have fixed that if you were concerned about it hurting your score. I think it would have more visual effect without the purple and maybe a tad less bright in that area.
I do like the beam, and the green glow on everything is pretty cool as well.
This photo kind of reminds me of the ribbon winner from this challenge. That's a compliment.
Focus and clarity are really good and I think that we get lots of detail in the surroundings. I like the way there are lots of lines in the celieng and then the lines also down the right side, but the bottom left does not have all the bars/beams in it. This brings my eyes through the photo.
Overall a very nice scene, interesting to look at and very little need for improvement. Congrats on the neat shot.
~Heather~

Coming Through
by HRoxas

Comment by Peter Wilson:
lacks strength in subject. 9

Coming Through
by HRoxas

Comment by tsheets:
Interesting setting. the lighting is a unique piece of this, but I'm not sure it's really an integral part of the photo.