Lightroom antique preset
Brightness/Contrast
Dodging/Burning
Smart sharpen
Cloned out a hot spot and a dark dot
Healed out an intruding flower bit from the right side
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Place: 107 out of 178 Avg (all users): 5.2030 Avg (commenters): 6.3333 Avg (participants): 4.9194 Avg (non-participants): 5.4507 Views since voting: 902 Views during voting: 228 Votes: 133 Comments: 9 Favorites: 0
Wowo, just looking at your portfolio, this was robbed, what a fantastic photo. Look at the diff between the Avg all users and Avg commenters, but I suppose you already know.
I'm probably not the best critiquer for this one because quite frankly I think it rocks. I LOVE the very shallow DOF on this. The smoothness of the OOF areas is quite lovely and enviable. Exposure is very good. About the only thing I can think of to critique may be the somewhat centered crop, but I do like it that way, and the angle forms a very pleasing diagonal within the frame.
As for score - I'm guessing for the most part with most voters it met the challenge. Undoubtedly the SCORE downfall is the blurriness, which of course for me makes this picture work. I'm hoping the Chromey award (congrats!) and L2's comment help make up for the score since this really is quite a beautiful picture. (And I must add that I'm quite fond of that Lightroom preset, too.) Nice work - keep it up and ignore the scores when you can!
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