Pink Camillia.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment by ursula:
You must be so lucky to walk by beautiful pink roses on your way to do laundry! I like how real this image feels. Very nice.

Mourning.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment by Maggye:
You did a great job here, with out explanation you make your viewers feel exactly what you want them too.

Pink.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment by sonniejake:
Paul - Again, thank you for the critique. All three of my posts were done at the cemetery. DOF is defenetly one of my downfalls - need to learn more.

Flower 2.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment by sonniejake:
I'm learning... whoo hoo!
I am thankful to everyone's comments. I need to get some good editing software, and work on my DOF.

Mourning.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment by sonniejake:
Thank you very much for all the comments. Yes, that is a gravestone. It seems that a lot of viewers think I placed the flower there myself, but I didn't, it was there when I arrived.
This was my very first "intentional" shoot, at one of our cemeteries. I chose to respect what was there and not add or move things.

Flower 2.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment by patio127:
You do have the basic very fine image here...so where is paul's edit ??? Hmmm

Pink.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment by Paul:
Again, really nice flowers and the lighting is much better. The DOF is a bit too large to truly isolate your subject from the background and a wider aperture would have helped- I see you sot this at f/13; something like f/5.6 would have given you a better result.

Compositionally, I not sure you've cropped it in the right places, clipping the edges of the petals that way but I think your approach to framing the image this way with an extreme portrait crop is definitely the way to go.

Once again your excellent eye has found a really good picture and five more minutes of editing would bring your original alive.

Flower 2.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment by Paul:
This is a really nice flower but the image is way too flat. I just had a go at messing with it a little and it really rewards a bit of aggressive editing. I'd also clone out the white area top left.

Because of your good eye for a picture, there is bags of potential in this image but at the moment it goes untapped.

Flower 2.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment by TCGuru:
This is a very pretty flower but it seems a bit dark. Perhaps a little curves to bring up the whites and darken down the bg would make it pop even more. Your focus and framing are great though.

Mourning.JPG
by sonniejake

Comment by Paul:
Interesting take on the side challenge theme.