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I thought I would need to saturate the image to bring the colours out - but NO saturation adjustment was made.
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Very nice. Sharp and colorful. Nice macro work. There seems to be a touch of noise in the shadow, but that maybe my monitor. I'll wait till I am home to vote.
"Use a colorful impact to offset your subject from the rest of the photograph." This is a lovely image of a rose, but the entire frame has been filled with "subject", there is nothing the red is being offset from or by. For that reason this really doesn't answer the challenge, no matter how fine it may otherwise be. A 5 from me, for it is surely colorful so you got half of it :-)