Image was shot midday at Riverfront Park in Shreveport Louisiana. I angled the shot toward the sky to accent the roses and the original does have the Red River in the background but the shore scenery is distracting. Post processing was auto levels, color and contrast withe a bit of saturation of yellows and blues.
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Place: 128 out of 290 Avg (all users): 5.4348 Avg (commenters): 7.0000 Avg (participants): 5.3750 Avg (non-participants): 5.4808 Views since voting: 845 Views during voting: 255 Votes: 184 Comments: 9 Favorites: 0
I really liked this one and I ended up giving it a 6. My favorite part about it is the composition along with an interesting subject. On the down side, the sky has some posterization and it feels a little flat to me. I wonder if this would pop a little better with the saturation pushed up along with a slight lightness increase and a light to medium contrast curve. I think the average quick-click (or key-stroke) voter may be more negatively impacted by too little than too much in areas like that.
Of course, this is all just my humble opinion. You really did take a nice photo here.
This is a good entry for the challenge, I think. You have a good strong diagonal composition, and a subject that makes the viewer pause for a minute to figure it out. Good choice of aperture to get a deep depth of field. And yes the focus is very good. As for why it didn't score higher? Hmmm... the only thing I can think of is the "midday" part - I wonder if a shot later in the day with the sun at a lower angle would be a bit less harsh on the gold and allow more of the texture and structure of the roses to show through.
The colors are surprising brilliant, you wouldn't expect that with blues and golds. There is something missing for me. Send this to the Critque Club or one of the forums, they could probably figure it out better than I can.
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