Shot with telphoto lens with extension tube. Thought I would try a different approach and shoot through some yellow tulips located in front of the purple tulip to try to make the foreground yellow.
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Lovely flower shot. IMHO - the yellow forground doesn't work though. That is why this image didn't score above 6. Love the purple though. Can't see how people see it as "oversharpened". In fact, in my opinion the purple flower needs a tad more sharpening.
DOF and composition is very good.
I see you have a couple of positive 6 entries - This one was almost there. I know people would've punsihed you for that yellow. I see that somebody mistook DOF for noise - My opinion - and commented on the yellow and gave you a 2 :-( Think loads of votes went like this.
Wow! This photo is so beautiful!! I love that depth of field giving this almost an ethereal look! I don't get the 5.8 tho. Should have been much higher.
the yellow is very faint so as its not a main focus liek the purple its doenst fit the challenge enough in my opinion
the yellow blur seems added jsut for the challenge and actually bothers me more than anything.
There is noise in the green, which happens quite a bit on my 20D where there is not enough light. The yellow, while it is kind of intersting, gets in the way of the subject of the picture... Had you made the yellow a part of the subject, as opposed to a supporting layer of the subject, then you would have scored higher with me. 2
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