Gerber Daisyby
Ja-9Comment by salmiakki: Greetings from the Critique Club
First Impression: Clearly this meets the challenge description well, although there were rather a lot of Gerbera in this challenge, so not perhaps terribly original. (Probably would have done a Gerbera myself too if I had entered, as they can be fun to photograph!)
Composition: I do like how the image fills the frame, but do find the dark shadows on the right side to be a little distracting.
Technical: Before I even looked at your camera, I figured you were a Nikon user. One of my pet peeves with Nikon is the way the reds come out. You may not agree, but I typically find the reds to be a little bit unreal and I can't help feeling this image is suffering from that to a small extent. I'm not sure how to explain it properly, so sorry for that, but I usually find the detail can be missing with red objects. I feel this is what is happening a bit on the left side of the frame. I usually desaturate reds a little bit to stop the blown out look.
I also find the focus to be just a little bit soft. I was looking at your camera settings and wondered what F0 meant, or if that was just a typo?
Overall thoughts: Gosh, reading back what I have written you would think this was an awful image. Of course, it's not! It's quite a good strong image, I was just trying to figure out why it score 5.6 not 6.6.
I hope this helps? feel free to get back to me if you have any questions.
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