Shall We Dance?by
OneSweetSinComment by photom: Hi Anna *Greetings From the Critique Club *
Well - you are certainly an active "old timer" to DPC! Congratulations.
As you most liklely have guessed - some folks felt your image was not abstract enough for their taste. That's probably a good part of the reason you didn't score higher.
I think it's really interesting when an image gets both "I hate it" and "I love it" comments. It sure shows the diversity of the DPC crowd.
Since you already have a nice image, how could it be changed to be even better? (Since it is an abstract - we shouldn't discuss things such as focus as an abstract could be totally blurred if the photographer wanted.)
Therefore the key lies in composition, line and shapes - coupled with colors. YOur image definitely has some excellent shapes and texture - and some very interesting colors.
A viewer's eyes - when first looking at a picture - will dart right to the point of the largest contrast. From there the eye will follow a natural lead-in you provide. In this image - the area of most contrast is the dark petal above the bright area on the left side. The problem is that there's not a real lead-in back to the nice blue colored shapes. That area is pretty bright.
You can kinda tell how an image will make your eyes behave by squinting at the picture just to see the bright and dark patterns.
My suggestion would be to crop the bright part of left side out since the challenge did not allow spot editing.
Since many felt it was too literal - you could also try some other things that would make it harder to read such as filters, rotating, etc.
Bottom line - it's a nice image and thanks for sharing it.
Keep submitting - you have a good eye.
-Tom-
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