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Photo credit: Mazda Hewitt (Zurich, Switzerland)
Airchild
It's very good. Composition is clean and strong. The complementary colors are terrific too.
Elkhead
Elegant composition and beautiful colour. Excellent study!
So what do you produce when you're really trying? ;-).
isolano.
The composition is nice, and so is the lighting, but there's something about the dark blue background that I don't like.
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jajasmin
I like it. Looks like flame.Would be better with another background color
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Navelfluff
Yes, another background color would be nice. Not a big job with photoshop i think, also i don't like shopping at all. But the Flame-flower would profit from it.
In this case:
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kimberkit
Almost so close! It's not the background that bugs me - in fact, it makes the flame effect stronger, and I love that. It's just a little white at the bottom of the flower where it should be in the dark, and there's one white edge on the flower that needs a bit of PS.
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Ben_Patio
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SF buckaroo
yes, much better than the ordinary flower macro.
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In Memoriam: Hughes Léglise-Bataille
Won't vote on this one, deleting it would feel unfair as it's so much better than the average I've seen recently... But I wish we could see the green a little more. I'm a bit uncomfortable with the color of the background, but not sure of what alternative. I would have framed it vertically rahter than horizontally, to emphasize the flame impression.
Xavier Rodríguez
Nice one!
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dangerous voice
Gorgeous calla. And I love the colours.
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Kaippally:കൈപ്പള്ളി
This is a perfect photograph. But is it good photography.
Anything removed from its natural environment is artificial. And I don't like that.
If it was a bottle of perfume or a machine part or anything man made I would have saved it. I can't bring myself to save this.
Sorry.
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Mr. Mark
damn. I dislike flower photos probably more than most people, but this is goody good good. looks like a flame. something about that background bugs me too, but not enough to make a difference.
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hotel wonderland
i find the colours just a bit too simple minded. personally i'd like to see a different, more interesting background colour. and i agree with clapalley's comment about it feeling artificial.
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ido1
I love the flaming flower. Good light, good framing, unique pic
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eight things
Nice. Very nice.
I'm torn on my decision though.
The World Through My Eye
neat..real neat!
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Andrew Morrell Photography
Yeah - it's gorgeous. Simple, effective, tranquil, yet there's a lovely motion in th ephoto created by the flower sweeping up and to the right. It's almost like a ballerina.
Very nice.
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mirando
Bella, muy bella!! :) , lástima del espacio vacio a la derecha... :(, pero no es suficiente para borrarla! :)
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ckemp
Elegant - i love it. The background needs to be a green, in my opinion - perhaps similar to the stem color?
saveme
to the vault!
hotdogg3uk
If the subject was either more detailed or had greater purity the background might work but here it doesn't do it for me.
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maz hewitt
thank you very much - An interesting photo - Quite lucky since this is the very first shot with my new (old) 55mm AIS macro lens..
ღWild Lilyღ
Great shot
joaobambu
Lovely. The other day I did a similar shot but here in Brazil I used a banana leaf... but what a consumerlevel canon lens does can´t match that lovely 55mm!
acrid butter
Reminds me a series of Robert Mapplethorpe. Beautiful!
dobar
Great shot! I like the contrast between the flower and the dark blue background.
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Shutterhugs
I think this is a very interesting image...love it!
marf2010
Great contrast and nice composition! i like it!
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Nex Ninek
What a beautiful macro! Keep testing those lens!
Emily Quinton
Love this...
Janet Leadbeater
wonderful yellow against the dark blue
tabrandt
This is fantastic! Very well done.
Rachael and Jess
I just love this image. Thank you for posting it. I'm amazed that this is your first shot with new equipment... Great job!
I've read the commentary stream and am surprised to see that some did not like the background. On my screen it is just a shade more blue than black and is Perfect for this image.
hereticseeker
ouch! yellow & Bule! i like the colour contrast
Julie70 Joyoflife
this photo, lowkey is exactly in the light of the first "fast and dirty" week of the newly created "!afterclass!"
beside, it is wonderfull!
Alan Bell
Great test, I would say it's successful
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