Greetings from Ernie of the Critique Club!
Subject: Is the subject the flowers (the challenge topic) or the bees?
Composition: Unfortunately it seems to be quite centered and is not totally sharp. (the focus appears to be soft)
Technicals (exposure, noise etc): The image appears to have a great deal of noise (digital grain) which detract from the photo. It is almost like this is a highly cropped piece of an image. It also appears to be a bit too highly saturated. The orange of the flower seems to be almost unnatural.
Improvements: I noticed in the exif information on your photo that you used your digital zoom while taking this? It is never a good idea to use a point and shoot camera's digital zoom. Essentially all it does is crop your image to make it appear to be closer up. If you wanted to do that you could do so yourself in your image editing program afterwords and yet have much more precise control of the crop. If you then further cropped the image as you state in your comments then that would explain the noise in the image. You are actually using a very small portion of the original frame. I think the photo enhance application of Iphoto has oversaturated the colours here.
My suggestion would be to spend about an additional $70 and buy a copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements as your software for editing. It is available for a Mac and it can do about 85% of what the full version of PS can do, but at a fraction of the price. :)
Good luck. I look forward to seeing more of your images in the future. |
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