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Challenge: Free Study 2015-11 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-70D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
Date: Nov 9, 2015
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 0
Shutter: 1/160
Date Uploaded: Nov 11, 2015

 A hand-held macro shot

Statistics
Place: 98 out of 110
Avg (all users): 4.8333
Avg (commenters): 0.0000
Avg (participants): 4.9048
Avg (non-participants): 4.5833
Views since voting: 371
Views during voting: 97
Votes: 54
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0

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 12/08/2015 09:45:28 AM
I gave this a 7.
IMHO the score you received was too low. But the only reason it is below a 5 is that you didn't get any 8-10 score which would have negated those 1-3 scores.
In comparison, check out this SH#! image from me a few years back. . Even my wife told me not to submit ...

You image is much better and like I said, received a 7 from me.
I think it kind of begs to have the bee a bit tighter in the frame and a bit sharper. People like sharp bugs - personally, I like your approach here - the colors are great, The bokeh is great and if you posted this on Facebook I'm sure it would get accolades. But here you are judged by photographers who have seen 1 million bug shots where you can see every little detail.
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 12/08/2015 09:19:51 AM
To my eye the image seems a bit unbalanced. There is lots of things catching the eye right around the bee, and the white is very concentrated. The lower white flower pulled my eye away from the bee since the bee was darker.
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 12/08/2015 07:40:23 AM
Mostly, the pic is ok in terms of comp; the lighting's ok but the petals on the daisies are blown out. And everything is very soft. A hazard to shooting handheld macros, bees don't hold still and other factors like wind etc don't help. And sadly this isn't a unique shot; macros of bees are a dime a dozen, so to do well with a shot of one means it has to be tacksharp at the very least.

The rules don't change for FS, though it seems that way at times. Generally it's much harder to do well in FS because everyone else is trotting out the very best image they took during the course of the whole month, so you can have a somewhat daunting array of subjects to compete against.

Message edited by author 2015-12-08 07:41:13.
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 12/08/2015 04:49:31 AM
main subject is the bee, but it doesn't wow out of the rest. the picture looks nice as a thumbnail, but at larger view it really miss the focus on the bee and the main flower. I gave you a 6, and believe it deserved around 5.5. 4.8 is low.
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 12/08/2015 02:45:38 AM
light and composition are nice, but sharpness on the bee is missing.
Since the bee is your main subject this is the major disadvantage and probably the cause for low votes. A blur might be ok but only if the composition is more "artsy"
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