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Comment by tee tah:
Nice study of a flower about to bloom. A beautiful but unusual choice of blossoms... I guess we all mostly work with what we have at hand. Taking the flower out if it's "natural" state lets you focus absolutely on the color, texture, and overall beauty. The dark background works well, but I find the big blank area in the upper right a bit distracting. I keep thinking something should be, but I don't know how you would fill this and keep the pure and uncluttered look you achieved. This is one to be proud of... not "just another flower picture"!

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Comment by emorgan49:
aagh - straighten that horizon line...

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Comment by jimmsp:
Something new.
Composition - quite good, background "line" is slightly distracting
Technical Aspects - very good
Meets Challenge - yes
Visual Impact / Originality ΓΆ€“ quite good
Jim msp

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Comment by Kavey:
I promised myself I'd comment on all photos which I scored >=5 but I am a little stuck on this one. I know I am definite about my rating of it - I rate photos to my own internal plan (1 means this, 2 means this) but also against each other. I just don't know why I don't like this more/ less than I do. I will come back to it and try and be more useful if I can. Apologies for my lack of anything useful (though for all I know all my comments are useless and no help at all!).
5, Kavey

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Comment by tomlewis1980:
Your lighting seems very harsh, if you are using your cameras flash maybe you could try using an alternate light source and a levels adjustment in photo shop or similar may help to remove the background.
tomlewis1980

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Comment by shedevil:
Pretty flower, grama. I didn't see any of these when I was there this weekend. Where were you hiding them? LOL Love you!! Nic

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Comment by camelotnorth:
very nice...good composition and lighting. It has depth with the subtle leaves in the background. Would have liked it better if the whole background was black.

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Comment by autool:
Composition9
Technical Aspects9
Appeal7
Creativity6
Rating8Autool

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Comment by spiller:
Very dramatic. Maybe a bit over sharpened?? Nice shot. 9 Spiller

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Comment by fsteddy:
an all black background could have done a little more for the shot maybe?