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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.

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Comment by Kelli:
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That's a really cool flower! The colors are great. As I also seem to be told though, that break (background) is distracting. Maybe a different angle could have eliminated that. Congrats on the high placement.

Message edited by author 2006-05-03 12:41:47.

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Comment by nards656:
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My first impression is "Great Color!" My second is "Neat Image? Maybe a hair too much, maybe none at all???" A sheet of white paper stuck down on the right side to blank out that background area would have probably given you a full point in the score (my opinion). Excellent composition; the yellows are a BIT oppressive, but not terribly so.

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Comment by h2:
lights are blown, sky is dull, but composition is good. should have a thin black border, as the white areas are fading into the white frame

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Comment by SherwinJames:
Great POV and composition. Nice pattern as well.

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Comment by timfythetoo:
Cool looking flower. The colors overall are a bit too saturated for my tastes and maybe a bit oversharpened (although I think over saturation sometimes has the same effect). I didnt dislike this shot (I gave a 6) but it also didnt stand out. 46th place is great placing though.

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Comment by naruto_fanboy:
This is VERY cool, looks natural but almost sci-fi or something. The color is great too!
Awesome job.