From RAW, As shot but customised: 3150, +27, +0.85, 26, 25, -18, -9. Cropped, USM and sharpen, very slight gaussian blur and noise filter, more sharpen.
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Hi Jacqui, your my first (Critique for the club that is). I quite like the composition but feel an even tighter crop on the right would help the overall feel a little and, you could fill in the void with a smaller flower under the main bloom. Your background may have been a bluish wall but it looks more like the exposure was not quite right, something easily fixed as it was a RAW image. In your Photographer's comments you said "As shot but customised: 3150, +27, +0.85, 26, 25, -18, -9" I'm guessing 3150 was the colour temp? but am unsure about the other settings as I'm unaware of the software you are using to convert.
I quite like the flower arrangement but think you might have cleaned up the marks on the petals (since this was advanced editing). IMHO flower shots as simple as this will never be ribbon winners but a well taken shot can score quite highly. I think you were let down somewhat by your lighting/exposure and for me I think it should be a little sharper, did you use a tripod for this?
I agree with your final score and think if you reshot/redited this you would be able to produce a much finer image (theres a mini challenge for you).
Nice flowers, colours meet the challenge but the photo overall is a bit dull. Brighter and better lighting would help. There also appears to be a lot of noise in the photo. Again, brighter lighting and a low ISO should get rid of this.
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