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			|  | 02/21/2016 09:06:26 AM | 
		| | Greetings from the Critique Club! 
 I see that I'm one of your 8s, I felt you deserved some extra kudos for entering a flower macro in a challenge dominated by things much bigger than flowers :-)  Good comp and lighting, you used HDR to good effect and the b/w works surprisingly well.  I would be a little careful in your post work, though, I can see sharpening 'jaggies' and those will cost you. In this case the effect around the droplets especially gives them a bit of a plasticky feel.
 
 Denoise itself can do sharpening on its own, so if you have the original image, maybe just play with a little and just leave out the sharpening.  Or do as you did already, but fade back the sharpening to about 50% and see what you think.
 
 Hope this helps
 
 Susan
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