Originally Posted by
Manfred M
No problem, Otavio. One of the issues with back-lighting is that there is a lot of bright and potentially distracting background in the image, so creating an appropriate framing is important.
The other part that is important is to create a strong visual flow and balance in the image. The clear glass "stem" needs to have visual balance with the flowers, so darkening them up slightly is where I started this image. The dark red parts of the "flowers" looked like they needed more "life", so I brightened up the reds.
All of this is subjective and personal taste, but you need to have good visual balance for the image to be effective and unfortunately, the only way to do this is to spend some time post-processing to bring that out.