Night Shift
by Steveinnz

Comment by olbol:
Wow, how did you manage to hold the plant from running away? How unposed, yet tense it is...

Night Shift
by Steveinnz

Comment by alanfreed:
Wow... this is indeed candid... the building isn't even posing! (?????)

Night Shift
by Steveinnz

Comment by GoodEnd:
Candid: Characterized by openness and sincerity of expression; unreservedly straightforward. Not posed or rehearsed, an informal photograph. Of somethig that can be posed!

Night Shift
by Steveinnz

Comment by Dr.Confuser:
dnmc

Natural
by Steveinnz

Comment by LucidLotus:
It looks like a gigantic sun! I like the composition of this, the full on view with the petals splaying out towards the viewer. The colors are very nice, and it certainly meets the challenge. The lighting is a bit harsh though. It looks like you're using natural light so I'm not sure how possible using a handheld diffuser would be, but that would give a more even soft light that would get rid of (partially) the harshness of the lighting and some of those less than attractive shadows. The background makes for a nice contrast, but there's an odd.. dirty quality to it along the bottom, some brownish or grey cast, not sure what that is. Also the fact that the background has a very noticeable change from black to blue is a little distracting. A uniform background would definitely help, and if I were choosing I'd probably go with either a darker blue, black, dark green, something that's going to set off that yellow even more. The focus is too soft for an image like this, particularly with the way it is set up. This, to me, begs for clear, sharp focus so each of the petals are nicely deliniated which would also highlight the nice wheel of pattern it has. 4.

Natural
by Steveinnz

Comment by DrAchoo:
too soft in focus.

High Tech
by Steveinnz

Comment by ShutterCricket:
Nice tight focus

Natural
by Steveinnz

Comment by eschelar:
This is nice and I found some really nice red tones just lurking below this picture (curious characteristics of my LCD at different angles) and that looked nice.

I would have preferred if the BG had been 50/50 split and I believe cloning was acceptable here for the little black specks on the bottom and irregularities in the BG.

Also, there appears to be a swipe of a circular burn brush across a good 1/3 of the image at about 3/4 the way down.

Natural
by Steveinnz

Comment by Neuferland:
Wow! That is in my face! :) Very nice colors but the clarity is lacking just a bit. The lines are also very nice, leading in and out. A 6

High Tech
by Steveinnz

Comment by hotpasta:
not really an abstract