Please do not "mock" me. I'm a pretty bird!
by olddj

Comment by samchad:
contrast and feather sharpness needs some attention

Please do not "mock" me. I'm a pretty bird!
by olddj

Comment by fotodude:
this comes across as verry low res or verry over sharpened and noisy...its just not as clean an image as i could or should be to recive a higher vote

Please do not "mock" me. I'm a pretty bird!
by olddj

Comment by balancedfox:
Parts of the branch and bird seem a little overexposed to me.

An Early Bloomer
by olddj

Comment by polkop:
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

First Impression:
At first I was a little distracted by the background on your photo which is taking away from your main subject however I like the colours and the placing of your subject.

Composition:
Good use of thirds. But your subject is the last thing you look at on your shot. As when we look at a photo we tend to look from left to right meaning that we are seeing the distracting background first instead of the outstanding flower.

Subject:
This is a good choice of subject for this challenge. Yet something I may have thought about doing is putting a white backdrop behind it. It does not have to be anything special just something that will bring the flower to the front of the photo by eliminating any distracting background.

Technical:
As it is natural light there is not much I can comment on for your lighting. As for colour the colour in the petals is absolutely spectacular and I feel would have being enhanced even more by the use of a backdrop as I have already mentioned.

My Opinion:
I am afraid I agree with the voters here. It is half way it is a nice shot but with a little extra work could have gone way up maby as far as the top 20̢۪s

Feel free to contact me via the pm system if you have any questions about this critique.
T. Wiggins

An Early Bloomer
by olddj

Comment by polkop:
*critique posted twice*

Message edited by author 2005-12-19 13:10:05.

An Early Bloomer
by olddj

Comment by Registered:
This just turns me on!

An Early Bloomer
by olddj

Comment by racw:
This looks like a really crisp photo. I love the colors and the textures--they're all so sharp. Nice job.

An Early Bloomer
by olddj

Comment by jpdeloof:
Beautiful vision of the object, I find the colors a little last

An Early Bloomer
by olddj

Comment by AzCKelly:
Very nice! The background is a bit distracting, Love the detail on flower.

An Early Bloomer
by olddj

Comment by sherpet:
I am such a sucker for good images of flowers especially roses, but this is a well taken macro image and deserves to be in the top ten.