beauty alone in the dark
by jessgirl

Comment by Kemptonreporter:
I don't know so much about the alone part.

beauty alone in the dark
by jessgirl

Comment by fluxn:
this may be darkness to you, but i'm not feeling the darkness here. so i'll have to give it a 4.

beauty alone in the dark
by jessgirl

Comment by Artifacts:
Great focus, good color and nice composition. Exposure is right and there are no overexposed areas.

Voters will trash this for being a flower image submitted to a darkness challege. Having a black background will not be good enough for them.

On the technical side there are a couple improvements that could be make. The depth of field (DOF) is very shallow. The closest bud and leaf on the right side are in clear sharp focus but most of the rest is not. For this image everything probably should be in very sharp focus. This could be correct two ways. One would be to focus on the center flower and hope DOF will keep everthing from front to back in focus. The other way is to take the image at a longer shutter speed and narrower aperature to increase DOF. Or possibly both.

There is a light colored area in the black background to the left of the flowers that is distracting to the human eye. Viewers either want to see it better to know what it is or they don't want it in the composition at all. It could be removed by increasing image contrast a little more. That always results in some loss of detail so you have to decide on a balance between the two.

beauty alone in the dark
by jessgirl

Comment by ianrules:
Love the pink against the dark background.

beauty alone in the dark
by jessgirl

Comment by RolandB:
Very nice capture.

beauty alone in the dark
by jessgirl

Comment by DebN2003:
Good separation of subject from background. Good DOF. Excellent focus -- soft yet clear. Good exposure. - -10

beauty alone in the dark
by jessgirl

Comment by rox_rox:
The thing about an image like this is that it needs to be practically flawless to outshine the others that have come before. A few improvements that would help it work better for me are: A vertical crop, and/or eliminate the "chopped stem on the right and include the "chopped" tip of flower at top. Images that go out of the picture like that serve to draw the eye out of the image. Flipping it would help (Westerners read images from left to right) and there's some negative pschological effect about images that appear to "face" the left. Lastly, the brown spots bother me a little. I do like the black background and the lighting is nice. Sorry so long, had a lot to say.

beauty alone in the dark
by jessgirl

Comment by digital:
A good photo, but the focus of this picture is right on the roses. /the first thing that strikes you when you see the photo is the light and life of the roses. There is darness in the background, but it is overshaddowed by the roses. Good luck with the voting.

beauty alone in the dark
by jessgirl

Comment by shadow:
flower

beauty alone in the dark
by jessgirl

Comment by Jutilda:
The pink against the black is smashing! Nice light.