Greetings from the Critique Club!...
COMPOSITION...I think this overall a very nicely composed photograph that captures the essence of spring, which I am eagerly awaiting in my corner of the world :) Maybe the flowers are a bit too sparsely placed - I mean perhaps there is an angle where they would look closer together... I think this could be achieved using an SLR system with a telephoto lens, if you had something like that available, but regardless I like how the scene was captured. I was going to suggest removing the sky part but I'm leaning towards liking the little splash of blue that you've included in your photo.
TECHNIQUE... Depth of field could have been greater. If you had a tripod handy and it was a relatively calm day you could have closed down your lens a bit further, and if that still didn't render the front flowers in focus, then perhaps manually setting the focal point closer to the foreground,,, might be nicer to have most of the foreground flowers in focus than having the front and back ones out of focus. Other than that, great image quality.
OVERALL...when I first looked at your score, I was quite surprised but then I realized the reason your score ended up so low was most likely your loose interpretation of the challenge. I've always felt the photo itself should support the challenge topic and not rely on the title or vague interpretation to support its inclusion in a particular challenge topic... only to do better in scoring of course, not for any other reason. |
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