Messed up on DOF, as the foreground petals should have been in focus.
light was a gelled speedlight(camera right) hitting a grey cloth BG and another speedlight lower right, set up to backlight the underside + white reflector to open up the shadows(camera left)
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Great light! Like the composition, too. The colors in the background really do make it look like the flower could be emitting heat, or turning towards it. I kind of want all the petals in focus since the ones on the side look so nice and sharp, but very nice overall.
How very gorgeous this is. The background is so soft and the backlighting just soft enough to illuminate the delicate edges. Beautiful curve leads your eyes right in. 10
very good composition and lighting, I like how the gerber seems to bend towards the light on the background. Unfortunately the stem lost its natural color, could have been brought back in processing. This fact, the amount of sharpening artefacts (on the stem and in the bg) and the slight blur of the orange border lower my vote to 7.
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