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Comment by chalice:
Good strong colors here...although the yellowish area of the leaves is a bit washed out on my monitor, I suspect from saturation. The composition is really helpful, too. I like how the flower and the leaves interact...at first glance they almost seem to be spiraling upwards together. The lines formed by the leaves and flowers give this photo a lot of abstract punch.

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Comment by Simpa:
realy good..

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Comment by Tim:
my first ten for this challenge!

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Comment by sherpet:
Good angled shot.....

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Comment by UNTITLED:
Very good composition with very dramatic highlight and shadow interplay. Great photo!

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Comment by Melethia:
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Good score on this one. My favorite thing about the picture is the composition - I really like the diagonal formed and the shape of the flowers. The colors are good - rich and bright - but maybe a bit too saturated. The blown bits take away from the overall impression, though. I also like the perspective you chose, looking up a bit, but wish the "open" space on the right was smaller or not as bright.

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Comment by pineapple:
Nice perspective on rhythm.

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Comment by DanSig:
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this is a nice image, but everything can be improoved.. I think this is oversaturated, and probably neatimaged too much as there is too much loss of details, and that blown out area on the right is bad for the photo.

but it's not all bad, there are more good things about the image, composition is good, the subject is interesting and the angle makes it very apealing, the way the pollen looks like little fingers crawling out of the flower, and the colors are complementary even though they come out as cyan and magenta when inverted.

I think this image would benefit from a tighter crop to lose the blown out area, and skip the neatimage, and lower saturation to get natural color, that way you'll get the fine details of the flower that most people find crucial to a flower macro.

still a good finish in top 50.

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Comment by tngrndream:
hello,

it obviously did well. i think it would have done better ifn your colors were so harsh. the lighting seems to be pretty good overal but making the red colors lacking in any detail. like the red channel is blown out.

but that seems to be the only issue i have.

the composition is good, the subject is nice. the light shining through the plants kind of lighting them up is great.

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Comment by Louis:
Awesome "wow" on first view, the colours really doing a lot to enhance the unusually shaped leaves. Very nice image. The white element at top right is unfortunate, and detracts for me. Had that not been there, the effect would have been really superior. Compositionally well done, the red leaves leading our eye up through the centre perfectly.