Post-processing in Photoshop: rotate, slight adjustments in levels and curves, reduce brightness, increase saturation of yellow, a little burning, neat image, slightly sharpen, add border, save for web.
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I think you have already heard, over and over, about the only real problem with this picture. (The softness of the focus.) At this closeness, and with a wide aperature, (f-2.8) the depth of field will be extremely small and unforgiving.
Had you tried to sharpen the image much more, it would have looked worse because it would have become grainy and had haloes around objects.
Other than that, this is an extrodinarily good image. Color, saturation, hue, brightness and contrast are all excellent. I particularly like the perfect black contrast of the missing areas of the leaf. It really sets off the other colors well.
Great composition and lighting. I don't like the soft focus here. When you take a shot of the structure of a leaf it has to be quite sharp imho. Try to sharpen your shot via postprocessing.
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