I like this photo, but it is competing in a particularly strong field, and does not have the necessarty "wow" factor to avoid the middle ground. The middle ground for this challenge was a bit lower than usual, I think, because there are quite a lot of "wow" shots.
I would criticise the photo as follows. the gradation of colour in the background travels from yellow to blue, but the blue is not a strong blue: there is still a strong yellow cast. I might strengthen the blues in the top half of the image using colour balance controls, and possibly curves in certain channels.
The clouds are very subtle. I might have experimented with a polarising filter to punch out the whites in the cloud from the blue. As it is, the clouds are sufferring from the same yellow haze/colour cast.
Uniformity of the flowers is impressive - they are well matched and cast an interesting silhouette (if not immediately obvious as flowers). Drama might have been added if you could have caught a hihglight line tracing around the flowers to emphasise their shape and nature: possibly hard or impossible with this type of flower, but easier with flowers that have fluff on their leaves or petals (ie change of fauna being photographed - impractical to find different flowers on this timescale etc. I am sure, but availability/choice of subject will affect scoring dramatically). |
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