thanks!!
by sanandan

Comment by HRoxas:
Awesome clarity, nice colors, quarter down the bottom is quite busy for me. shallow dof is great.

thanks!!
by sanandan

Comment by lwkimages:
Wow! If this isn't a 10, nothing is!!

survivor
by sanandan

Comment by Gracechild7:
Interesting boarder choice. I like the colours, but it does seem a little bit bright.

survivor
by sanandan

Comment by Shannon:
I don't particularily care for the background or the uneven white border.

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by sanandan

Comment by inspzil:
Greetings from the Critique Club
By Inspzil

Composition - Nice flower. Good patterns. This might be a little bit darker than I would like it, if it were mine. I think its an easily remedied problem with PS though. The composition is fine aside from being a little dark. So on to the next section

Technical - I made the comment on this photo that some part of the flower should be in focus. That's pretty much the problem with this picture. It can be difficult to choose what gets to be in focus. My logic tells me that the first thing the eye is drawn to gets the most focus. In this case, the closest point of the flower is probably the first seen. Additionally, I think at F8, if you would've got a little of the center of the flower in focus, much more of it would be in focus too. Also I might have considered cropping the bottom of the photo off. I see no reason it needs to be there. It just makes the picture seem even darker.

Overall - Could've been a pretty good image. Biggest thing is the focus. The lighting might've made a little bit of a difference. I think the yellow would've jumped off the page a bit more if you bumped the saturation for yellow up a little and perhaps lightened it up a bit too. The idea was good, the execution was almost there. The focus issue is probably the biggest single factor that pictures get voted down. Good luck and keep shooting - Bob

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by sanandan

Comment by kyrielle:
That's a nice vivid color, and I like the shapes - but I really wish the whole of the flower were in focus; instead, the pieces that don't curl up toward the camera are blurry, but it's hard to take part of the subject as "background" and part as "foreground"....

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by sanandan

Comment by inspzil:
A little too tight. something here should be in focus, but its just a little off.

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by sanandan

Comment by kiwiness:
Maybe a little too soft for my liking, but very fitting to the challenge.

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by sanandan

Comment by pinback:
Nice colours, but I would like it better a bit sharper. I'd also crop out the darker area at the bottom.

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by sanandan

Comment by jdavis:
Slightly out of focus.