Sunlight on grass with flower footlightsby
puzzledComment by HBunch: *Critique Club*
By your comments, I think you understand why this didn't score higher than it did. It does seem to me that the lighting isn't an important part of this photo. I mean, it IS important, but not major. If this makes sense. In this challenge, I ask myself 'does the lighting MAKE this photo something special?' in this photo, that answer is no.
Ok. Off that subject, I read your other comments and saw something about 'white halos' in 2 of the comments. I may be missing something, but I'm not really seeing them. The only thing I'm seeing is in the long stems that have white behind them in the background. There is a slightly brighter white following the stems, but to me, that doesn't really effect the photo much, so I'm wondering if I'm just missing something??
However, I do see 'jaggies'. We all know that flower petals are generally smoothe, and in this shot, they are jagged. I think this is created by sharpening or by the way you resized the photo? I saw the comment about it being from USM, but I have had jaggies in my photos before, and I don't HAVE USM, so there has to be something else that creates it. I wish I could offer some better advice on that, but I'm just not sure how to fix that.
Your colors are really good. I like the bright white on the green background.
Focus and clarity are really good. I like the DOF to put the background out of focus and the 'bokeh' (I think that's the right word) really adds to the photo as well.
Overall a visually appealing photo, but as you already know, maybe not the best for the challenge.
~Heather~
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