Withering Beauty
by Zapperzac

Comment by Catherine_B:
Pretty flower, nice lighting, but the black and white of the rest of the plant looks plastic (I know it isn't) I don't care for the selective color on this image. Good luck in the challenge.

Withering Beauty
by Zapperzac

Comment by eckoe:
What's lost on me, is that with the green staalks, and the relative bland background, why this was turned into a selective desat. I think the red/yellow would have stood out a bit more elaving it fully colored. It just seems a bit too drastic.

Withering Beauty
by Zapperzac

Comment by sidpixel:
An effective use of desaturation the shadows are a little distracting though

Withering Beauty
by Zapperzac

Comment by e301:
The head-on flash adds a few very very strong shadows, whilst removing most sense of texture from the flower itself. You have at least managed to keep the detail there, even though I would say that bloom is over-exposed. The de-sat? Whilst well done, I just findd it strange in a composition where one would have thought the flower ought to stand out on it's own.

Withering Beauty
by Zapperzac

Comment by ergo:
Background is way too busy for my taste, and here's an example where better bokeh would have helped. The selective desat also doesn't quite work here, imho.

Late Night Thirst
by Zapperzac

Comment by LouiseB:
The bottle looks really great, but the cropping is much too tight. You could have use more negative space.

Salty Tunnel
by Zapperzac

Comment by buzzmom:
very well executed great focus to get the texture

Salty Tunnel
by Zapperzac

Comment by hokeypokey:
over exposed

Late Night Thirst
by Zapperzac

Comment by jmlelii:
The bottle cap is blown out, but the rest of the image is pretty decent. as it is, its just a bottle of sprite. I think would you have poured some salt in there and let it overflow to capture it, you would have a much more stellar image and probably a top 50 entry. Good luck.

Salty Tunnel
by Zapperzac

Comment by Xilebo:
Nicely done, like this alot