I think you could have improved this with brighter lighting and focus. If you meant to have a "soft focus", I don't think it applies for a texture photo.
Your probably getting lots of comments about 'not in focus', right? That's my primary observation on how you could improve this image. You've found a great subject for texture, but you need a sharp focus to show that texture. I might also play with the position of the main stem; either move it a bit to the left, or try a few shots with it forming more of a diagonal into the photo.
Your leaf doesn't appear sharp. Possibly you got too close for your camera to focus, or your shutter speed was a little slow. Macro requires a little more steadiness (or a tripod) because a small amount of camera movement is a larger precentage of the picture field.
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the lack of sharpness does not work for me in this picture. it detracts from the nice texture that is present, but poorly rendered. i think this image would have worked much better as a black and white... in focus, of course. ~mcmurma Aesthetics...3 Meets Challenge...4 Overall...4
leaves make a great shot for texture, especially the underside of them. what hurts your shot (in my opinion) is that it's not in focus. did you maybe get closer than your camera can focus at? i do that a lot with mine and it always beeps as if it has focused and then i upload the photos and they are all unsharp... sigh. -- gr8photos (3)
I know that soft focus may be a matter of choice, but when you want to show texture, it just doesn't work. Soft focus hides texture, it doesn't bring it to the forefront. But that's just me :)
did you mean for it to be blurry? I would have preferred it sharper. A little brighter would have been good too. But I like the leaf as a subject, always good for texture.
Not a bad composition and a very interesting leaf pattern. I think there is a problem with sharpness though. Some unsharp mask would help a lot with creating sharp edge detail.
would gain a lot if it was in focus - I bet you get tons of this kind of comments. I still like the picture a lot, the grid structure reminds me of terraced rice fields. 5 beegee
this photo needs to have focus... It appears that the entire image is out of focus... the texture concept is nice, but the complete lack of focus keeps this from being competitive. = 4 - jmsetzler
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