Blooms in Darkness
by weine

Comment by weine:
Yes, I agree that the focus is in the wrong place. Since I took this photo when travelling I had no option to go back and take another shot with the right bits in focus though. The reason I picked the photo for the Free Study is that I love how the colours turned out. I normally never edit my photos (this image is only slightly cropped), meaning that if the colours don't look nice right out of the camera I don't use the photo.

Now, in arrears I should probably take more photos of the same object, to ensure that at least one of them ends up with correct focus :)

Anyway, thanks for the feedback!

Blooms in Darkness
by weine

Comment by giantmike:
The out of focus orange area really hurts.

Blooms in Darkness
by weine

Comment by Robski:
Nice use of colour but feel the focus is in the wrong place, i would of removed the flower head bottom right and re-shot this with the point of focus being the yellow centre of your big flower.

Blooms in Darkness
by weine

Comment by kiwinick:
nice flower needs to be in focus though. 3

Lotus flower
by weine

Comment by weine:

Originally posted by Revecca: Really nice composition and pretty colors on your bokeh. The flower could be a bit sharper though.

Thanks! Yes, sadly the flower isn't quite in focus.

We got to this section of the botanical garden so late that we had to rush through it;
too much time spent looking at the bonzai exhibition. On top of that I was quite unfocused myself,
since it was too warm for my comfort (though I guess I shouldn't complain since I was told that
back home it was +6°C; we had +29°C).

Lotus flower
by weine

Comment by Revecca:
Really nice composition and pretty colors on your bokeh. The flower could be a bit sharper though.

Lotus flower
by weine

Comment by JakeKurdsjuk:
Not quite focused.

waterfall
by weine

Comment by weine:
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it (though, truth to tell the trip was so awesome in itself that I wouldn't even have minded to end up last).

If you're referring to the circular black thing, then it's actually a rock or something in the waterfall (I compared to the photos I took from other angles, just to make sure). I can agree that it doesn't look very nice though...

The foreground is indeed shaky.

waterfall
by weine

Comment by EstimatedEyes:
really? 202nd place? This one should have done much better. I think that black spot of sensor dust or dead pixels in the middle might have taken you down a little and the foreground looks a little shaky, but that waterfall is fantastic!

Boat
by weine

Comment by njsabs:
Soft lighting and wonderful pastel colors.