Shot with natural light and handheld flash with white card behind vase of flowers.
Adjusted in RAW with curves, lightened, and converted to JPEG. Cropped, Levels, cleaned up a few blemishes with healing and clone, Hue/Saturation, Neat Image, USM and minor amount of gaussian blur.
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I think you are on to a very cool idea here, I really like the idea of using a mirror. I also really like your compostion, the similar color flowers as in vase is also nice. I think this may have done better if you could of done it with a black background vs white it would of added a lot of drama to your image. I am not sure also about the sharpness here. It kind of looks soft, tho it may be that they are silk flowers? Making them look fuzzy a little.
Beautiful effect, with a calming composition that really satisfies. I like the understated colours, and the reflectivity of colour in the blossoms and vase. There's a kind of dark band along the left edge that is noticeable to me - I don't know if this was burned in or not, but it may be better if omitted, though it could be argued that it acts as a soft frame for the image. Overall, well done.
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I liked this alot. I gave it a 7 in voting. The colors are soft and it goes with the flowing reflection. I like the way they almost come together. I draws your eye around and around for a while. Great job.
At the risk of repeating myself, I really do like this composition - the almost-touching shape formed the branch and its reflection is quite lovely. Colors work well, too. About the only thing I'd recommend is try playing with levels a bit to see if you can get the white more white, and if you still like it that way. You can also try "selective color" and take the yellow and a bit of the magenta and cyan out of the white.
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