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Kitty212Comment by Louis: Greetings from the Critique Club!
Your entry has the fundamental qualities of a great "stock photo" shot, with wonderful bright colours, a macro element that fills the entire frame with the subject, and an impact that gives immediate satisfaction with what you are in all probability trying to accomplish here. In that respect, it's a good composition.
There are a few things you should have done differently though, in my opinion, which may have resulted in an even greater impact. Although depth of field is satisfactory, focus is not good. For such a close-up shot, high impact is only achieved with razor-sharp focus. As well, lighting is generally poor, because it seems that post-processing (or perhaps even the original photo) reveals lots of grain, an indication that the camera did not have enough light enough to properly expose all parts of the image.
I feel you could have spread out the jacks differently, so that more variety appeared across all parts of the image. The lower right is very red, which draws the eye, and detracts in my opinion.
Lastly, the heavy blue border is a bit
too heavy. A lighter blue, and perhaps a thinner border, would have been a less distracting choice I think.
Keep at it though, your eye and sensibilities for composition are good!
Hope this helps,
Louis
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