Took this photo while siiting down one afternoon on a lavender field. Used exposure merging to create a HDR file and advance editing to balance the contrast between the sky and the ground.
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There are two ways to approach this image critically: as a composition, and based on how you dealt with the HDR requirement of the challenge.
Speaking compositionally, The image is startlingly static considering how much convergence is used, because convergence is usually very dynamic. If you hold your thumb up over the feet, you'll notice the image becomes much more dynamic. Not the image you wanted to make, obviously, but nevertheless a more dynamic one. And in DPC, "dynamic" is worth points. The feet, apparently, anchor the image in a rather mundane way. Which may be your point, of course.
Looking at it as an HDRI image, it's a little awkward. There's a huge disconnect between the rendering of the sky and the rendering of the field, so much that they look like they belong to two different images. And, as a niggling point, the tallest sunflower on the left is showing total shadow, whilst none of the others do, so that's an inconsistency that works against the whole. In general, it's a bit harsh and crunchy of an image.
I did *like* the image, it made me smile, but in the end it finished smack in the middle of the field, which is where I'd have expected it to end up.
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