Counting flowers on the wall...by
CitadelComment by salmiakki: Greetings from the Critique Club
First Impression: A nice deviation from the regular colour images in this challenge. Very creative and nice processing.
Composition: For me the composition is just possibly ever so slightly too centered. I don't normally worry too much about that but in this case I think it may have benefited with a slight shift to the left. But in doing that I guess your holga effect would have been a bit different. Still, wouldn't mind seeing a re-edited version just to compare.
Technical: I was going to say it feels a bit soft in terms of focus, but I don't think that's the flower itself, rather than the added grain from the Holga effect. (I'm a big user/fan of the Nik Silver Efex filters). The one thing that bothers me a bit is I find the centre of the flower to be a bit blown out. Again, this is possibly due to the filter and the increased contrast from the control point, but I think you are missing quite a bit of detail.
Artistic: Great choice to convert it to black and white.
Overall thoughts: Well, I'm glad I could read the other comments, for I had no idea that the title was a lyric from a song :) As far as the image goes, nice attempt to step outside the box, I'm only sorry it didn't score higher for you, but I suppose it's always a bit risky to do something a bit different in a challenge like flowers.
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