*Critique Club*
The lighting here is quite a bit too bright for me. I think it overpowers the flowers a bit.
I'm not sure if the lighting has anything to do with it, but the focus is also generally quite soft. I think in a close up shot like this, I'd prefer some sharp focus so that we can get a lot of detail out of it.
The background, even though blurred shows enough pattern to clash badly with the busy patterns in the flowers. I think that blurring backgrounds is very effective, but because of the strong pattern in your background, I think that it only adds to the busy-ness, rather than making the background non distracting.
The bee does blend in quite a bit with the flowers here, and I don't think that he's being particularily noisy. he's landed, and his wings are clearly not moving here. I do see how this COULD portray sound though, and when I think of bees, their buzz goes right along with.
Overall too busy for my personal taste.
~Heather~
I had to scroll my eyes over a great deal of bright and eye-catching colour before finding the bee, which doesn't help with the feel of 'sound'. A tighter focus on the bee or a less bright set of flowers or even some less bright lighting might have helped with this. The border is very distracting as is; either a solid one or none at all would have been preferable.
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