A perfect iris bloom from our yard, just after a rain.
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Comments after the challenge:
Thanks to everyone for the comments, good and bad. As to the water drops, it had been raining for weeks in my area, so it was either shoot w/ the drops on there or spend an hour drying all of them off w/ a q-tip. I liked the drops, so I left them.
Yes, flowers are a cliche around here, but I actually thought of this one as soon as I saw the challenge as our irises had just opened. I had to wait awhile for them to open more fully before I shot it. I also took probably 50 different shots of them, from different angles, distances, flash/no-flash, etc. I did spend a lot of time trying different things and attempting something interesting and creative with it.
This close crop and no-flash shot worked the best out of the ones that I took. I see what some mean by the close crop feeling too tight, but I was trying to take out some of the "it looks like a flower" feeling to it and make it a little more about interesting colors and shapes.
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First Impression - the most important one: Lovely ... flowers normally score well .. so this is a good solid and safe shot.
Composition: I am not a huge fac of centering an item in the picture ... I like to think about the rule of thirds //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds and also leading lines .. something that can take you further into the picture to explore. This is not to say that you composition does not work .. cos it does.
Subject: Meets the challenge ... and does it well.
Technical (Colour and light): Lovely .. I think what you have here is good, sharp with a good DOF.
To grow its vote?: Play some more and think about how to get the "wow" factor into the shot.
Summary: Well done ... you are doing great .. can't wait to see more.
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what is with all the droplets on the flora. it doesnt make a photo better, really it doesnt.
i would have changed the back ground but over all nice focus and lighting. please can you quit it with the droplets. 7 for a good photo
work on your title.
5 - Nice, but would like to have seen some of the yellow in focus as well, perhaps a slightly different angle to showcase the two, not sure. Difficult, but also 'less green'. A slight variation in composition - more off-centered, or otherwise more centered, may have also given this a little extra, not sure. Looks like you tweaked the colors to get the hue right for the Challenge, if so, seems quite well done.
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