Every flower is Mother Earth's Smile to Us

[Wavelength]

For your critical evaluations....


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Regards

[deetheturk]

Nice Nandakumar!

[Wavelength]

Nice Nandakumar!

David; thank you so much

[Mike Buckley]

This might be my favorite photo of yours but I feel that it needs more output sharpening. Also consider applying Local Contrast Enhancement to the most detailed areas in the center (sorry, but I don't know the names of the various parts of that area of the flower).

[Marie Hass]

Very nice! Good DoF and focus.

My only wish would be that there was just a tad more room on the left hand side.

Marie

[Brownbear]

Yes, very nice. I adore the composition, depth of field and rich colour against the dark background.

[Kaye Leggett]

Good capture. But have you changed the pink much ? It seems the wrong 'tone' compared to the red - which in a roundabout way is probably what Mike is getting at too ?

[Wavelength]

This might be my favorite photo of yours but I feel that it needs more output sharpening. Also consider applying Local Contrast Enhancement to the most detailed areas in the center (sorry, but I don't know the names of the various parts of that area of the flower).

Thank you so much Mike.... i would only be very happy to apply your suggestions, but not confident to specific area operations in image (i have a long history of fiasco.... in this matter ); but i will try to improve; regards

[Wavelength]

This might be my favorite photo of yours but I feel that it needs more output sharpening. Also consider applying Local Contrast Enhancement to the most detailed areas in the center (sorry, but I don't know the names of the various parts of that area of the flower).

Thank you so much Mike.... i would only be very happy to apply your suggestions, but not confident to specific area operations in image (i have a long history of fiasco.... in this matter ); but i will try to improve; regards

[Wavelength]

Very nice! Good DoF and focus.

My only wish would be that there was just a tad more room on the left hand side.

Marie

Thank you very much; i see your point

[Wavelength]

Yes, very nice. I adore the composition, depth of field and rich colour against the dark background.

Thank you very much Chris for your kind words

[Wavelength]

Good capture. But have you changed the pink much ? It seems the wrong 'tone' compared to the red - which in a roundabout way is probably what Mike is getting at too ?

Thank you very much Kaye...

I have saturated tones a bit to remove an overall grayishness

Regards

[Downrigger]

Very nice. Mainly, I like that the image "takes us into" the blossom, rather than showing the whole thing, and this takes it well beyond "just a picture of a flower". I think the composition is very effective too: eccentric, yet balanced.

[Downrigger]

Good capture. But have you changed the pink much ? It seems the wrong 'tone' compared to the red - which in a roundabout way is probably what Mike is getting at too ?

This is a good point. It raises the problem of extraordinary color (in any sort of subject, but flowers and sunsets/sunrises are chief among these) in that what strikes us as asking to be captured often strains credulity in the final image. If we see unbelievable color, and capture it, we then have the problem of an image whose color is hard to believe. Not sure of the way out of this one.

[Wavelength]

Some more posts of the same flower...... Please judge
Image.2
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Image.3
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Image.4
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[jamn4ex]

I like the image no. 4 best.

[Wavelength]

Thank you very much James

[Wavelength]

Very nice. Mainly, I like that the image "takes us into" the blossom, rather than showing the whole thing, and this takes it well beyond "just a picture of a flower". I think the composition is very effective too: eccentric, yet balanced.

Thank you so much Mark. My personal opinion regarding unusual colors is that most images- where color is a major subject- like landscapes or flowers, we rarely see images without color enhancement; i too do that

Regards

[Wavelength]

A few more...these images are from my garden... shot either in the morning or after night fall

Image.5
This was shot today, two hours before; it is 11 pm, here now

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Image.6
I shot this image in dark, using inbuilt flash and preventing direct impact light on flower using my fore finger; the result was the change of color from pink to red......
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Image.7
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Please comment on these......

Regards

[flashback]

I think the first image is the best one. If it were me I'd darken up the background between the petals on the RHS, so that flower stands out more evenly.