Purple Explosion
by pireland

Comment by e301:
Hi Paul, your critique club moment is at hand ...

First entry, huh? I shall be gentle with you :-)

One thing really jumps out of this image at me, and that is the light. The exposure is perfect to capture it (this after all, is what taking a photograph is), and it's from that that the tonal range of both the purple and the green is so rich and so wide. Remarkably good detail for a low-light handheld shot too.

As others have commented, the petals do seem to be just fractionally out of the field of focus - I could see a reason for this, given your title: to aid the illusion of a bursting out of something, but if that were the case I don't think you've gone far enough with it, so what it looks like now is that you've not quite got it right. Very close, perhaps half a stop more aperture, or perhaps I mean less - f/4.0 say.

Compositionally the two background flowers are good too - give a dynamic to what would otherwise have been purely a flower portrait. The brightness ot the right of frame is a pity - pulls the eye away from your primary subject: a shame you couldn't have shaded it with something (though you'd fall foul of the school of 'mustn't tamper with nature').

This is good work, and is a good result for a first challenge - hope you'll submit many more, I'll be interested to see your approach to other subjects.

Ed

Purple Explosion
by pireland

Comment by karmat:
I like the subtle composition of the flowers in the background. They balance the main subject nicely.

Purple Explosion
by pireland

Comment by eloise:
A very straightforward, head-on macro shot of a blossom. There's nothing that particularly excites me about it, but it's executed in a very technically-proficient way, so I have to give props for that. :-> Would make a good mousepad or coaster, I think.

Purple Explosion
by pireland

Comment by wetland:
Very well done...great color contrasts. thanks

Purple Explosion
by pireland

Comment by Fiver:
= 9

Purple Explosion
by pireland

Comment by kavamama:
Liked the compositional balance and the exposure and the depth of field use.

Purple Explosion
by pireland

Comment by Bitz:
An awesome photo. Colors and lighting are near perfect. For my own personal taste, I would have liked a little sharper focus. Still, it is a very beautiful picture.

Purple Explosion
by pireland

Comment by Dustin:
good job. nice pic.

Purple Explosion
by pireland

Comment by thatguy:
nice and detailed image, i like the shade of the flower, good work

Purple Explosion
by pireland

Comment by agwright:
this is just amazing .... 8/10 reason ...........8out of ten too centered