Taken in my home using a piece of black velvet as background and a northwest facing window as the light source. I handheld the camera. I edited the photo in PSE2. I used the clone stamp tool to remove dust specks from the black, and I also used the levels, b/c, saturation and usm tools in editing the image.
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I really liked this image and gave it an 8. I can't think of anything technical to improve it, it might have looked interesting with a water drop on the very tip of each petal, but I am not sure how it would have reflected with the black background.
one of my favorite flowers -- good choice on the black as the purple/orange really pop. I'd like to see a bit more of the stem as it seems too tightly cut off at the bottom - the center of the flower (the purple/tanish part) is not quite right - could be it's fuzzy "past its peak" look??
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