The selective focus works well in your image, but the 9 is very difficult to see right away. I like the muted tones you captured, but the narrow, rectangle crop gives this one an awkward appearance. In addition, it is cropped too much in from the right hand side, nearly touching the lemon. A neat still life, but this one is a definite challenge shoehorn. Even still, with a better crop I wouldn't have hesitated to give it a strong score. As it is, I score it a 4.
Thanks for the constructive comments ericwoo and everyone else. Initially, I didn't want to just take a photo of a '9' or nine items as I wanted to try to make it a little more interesting - so that is why it's not necessarily easy to see the nine right away.
I agree with the comment about the narrow crop, unfortunately, with the rose and lemon being placed on my tiled window sill, a less narrow crop would have had resulted in unsighlty detail in the corners so I chose the lesser of two evils as I saw it.
As for being a shoehorn, I can understand that critisism as it was a bit of a bodge! Having looked at the other submissions, I have seen that there are certainly ways to make an interesting and beautiful picture from seemingly ambiguous and less inspiring subject matter.
The selective focus works well in your image, but the 9 is very difficult to see right away. I like the muted tones you captured, but the narrow, rectangle crop gives this one an awkward appearance. In addition, it is cropped too much in from the right hand side, nearly touching the lemon. A neat still life, but this one is a definite challenge shoehorn. Even still, with a better crop I wouldn't have hesitated to give it a strong score. As it is, I score it a 4.
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