Don't ask why I had a brick sitting around here almost ten years. Something to do with a sore back some time ago, I think.
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USM, Neat Image....hmmm....a little neat image I did not want to lose the texture so there is noise...Resize.
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Nice thinking, nice idea for a contrast of textures. compositionally, I don't think this works - the relative angles of the two subjects is unharmonious, and the exclusion of so much of the rose (and perhaps also of the brick, though less so) seems restrictive. Your lighting hasn't allowed very much of the textures to come though however - it seems too general, not allowing those little graduations of surfaces to show.
Good idea and nice texture. Only one thing. The more I look the more I realize that I can not get the center of this picture. My eyes run from the rose to the stone... Maybe you should have focused only on the rose
This shot just doesn't grab my interest at all for some reason. I think part of the problem might be the brick being behind the flower seems to lose some sharpness of focus which is so important in conveying the texture.
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