Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 5
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 5
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc.? 4
How well does it meet the challenge: 7
Total Averaged Rating 5.25 Dick
Your main topic is not Rusted, and the background doesn't support or enhance the flower.
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 6
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 4
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc. 5
How well does it meet the challenge: 6
Total Averaged Rating(Rounded) 5
I would have tried to take the picture when more natural light was available. Pictures exposed with only an on-camera flash almost never work. The harsh frontal lighting and the hard shadows make the image look like it is composed of three very flat planes. Cropping the top fourth from the image would help the composition dramatically.
Between the flat flash lighting, and over boosting either the saturation or the contrast, you've made this look like cutouts. That's fine if you are doing abstract graphic art, but it is contrary to the aesthetics of photography.
Incongruity and posed pics are not my thing. The flowers seem overexposed therefore flat. Perhaps if this were taken in softer light and relabelled "The old scythe at rest" I might buy it.
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