I fear that this is not a very original take on the challenge. However, I liked playing with a stark image, which is not my normal style.
I walked around the grounds near my office and picked a few flowers and brought them back to my office. The building across from me was just reroofed with some sort of white reflective material, creating an ideal bounceboard for diffuse lighting. I set up a large piece of white paper to make an cyclorama and shot about 30 different ways with different exposures and framing.
Adjustments made (in order) were cropping, noise reduction, curves, contrast, resizing, unsharp mask.
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Over all image impact is excellent, the use of negative space, and color make this a very interesting image. The lighting was well set and almost no shadows. The strong offset placement of the flower adds impact to the image. I feel this should have placed much higher than it did. The fact you used what you had on hand for lighting and background only make this a more impressive image.
As with any image, one could find fault with some part of it, if you look hard enough. I have only one thing to add, and that is you could have made the flower maybe just a tad darker, not much, just a bit. Having said that I still think this is a good strong image.
It would seem that I am in the minority, seeing how this placed in the challenge. That is what makes art, art. Just because this placed low in the challenge does not lessen the quality if the image.
There is some technical problem here I believe....the image is not clear. I also feel the photo lacks any voice that would push it beyond being a snap shot. Nothing makes it stand out amoung other images in challenge.
this is great. There was another shot like this, and pretty much all the comments I gave to that person to try, you did. I love the high key look here. Well done, my favorite thus far, its going on my favorites as well. Good luck with the challenge. My first 10.
Very nice shot! This is one of my favorites that I have seen so far. I like the color a lot and find the composition to be quite nice. I wouldn’t change a thing.
Veyr pretty; very white but very pretty. parts of the flower look like they may be slightly overexposed but an overall great shot. Captured theme. High score
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