The lighting is just the sun in the back of me as I took this. I used auto-contrast and auto-sharpen in Photoshop Elements. My goal was to place the infocus rose in the foreground in the lower third corner and have the upper third show the bokeh, with yellow and peach roses providing color interest. The scores seem to be placing this picture as a less than 5.0 mark right now, so I just wanted to get some actual critique as opposed to people that just give scores and no comments. (I will put on my thick skin now...)
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Hey Jeff - the rose is nice, but I think I would have liked more color in the background bokeh - more spots of color, rather than so much green. Maybe a tighter crop (taking from the left side) would have helped? - Betsy
could use a better background colorwise, maybe softer and lighter. I love how you just got the top of the rose. i think it should be leading to something a little kinder on the eye (aka background.
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