Stretching towards the sunby
dogsandtreesComment by SaraR: Hello from the Critique Club.
This is a bright and bold entry that certainly meets the challenge. Your entry scored a near perfect DPC average, and finished in the middle of the pack, and in the middle of your DPC entries to date.
Pros: Conforms to voters expectations of the challenge topic; bright and cheerful; good control of your background which appears even, and crucially doesn't have shadows - good use of your flash; focus is crisp.
Cons: A tighter framing of the daffodils might give more impact; 'cleaner' more perfect specimens would, I am sure, have helped your score more, as would better lighting on the stems, which appear rather dark and lacking the vibrancy of the rest of the image; I wonder if a more perfectly symmetrical image - either all three bolt up-right or else a sort of fan shape would help?
All in all a decent entry that, with minor tweaks, would probably have scored a half point higher and in to the top third of the entries.
Feel free to PM me if you want any clarification on any points I have raised - oh, and welcome to DPC!
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