Purple Flower.

The flower was originally pink.
August 28, 2009

I'm surprised you haven't gotten much critiques yet.
Let me tell you one reason why this might be; you have done two reviews, yet keep asking for reviews on several different threads. There is a 3:1 ratio!

Now for my review: I do rather like this picture, espescially the way the sun sits on the flower. The light in the corner, however, I'm not as pleased with. The leaves look a tad dull to me, but the flower...great.
-Mizzle

Mandy this picture is wonderful But I can't really tell the color of the flower. I mean I know it's purple because you said but it looks a little I don't know washed out. I don't know if you use photo editing programs but I think if you sharpened the color with something like photoshop it will look great. Rain made a good point about the light in the corner I think it looks a little odd with the darkness or dullness of the rest of the photo. Good luck I hope this helps

~peanut~

Hello Mandy! ^^

Firstly, the lighting in this picture is beautiful. I love how the sun filters in from the side and gives a lot of texture to the flower. The play of light and shadow in the flower really makes it come alive.

The only thing I would actually reconsider is the focal point. Right now, the flower is almost dead-center. Usually, in a photo, you want to use the rule of thirds: divide your viewfinder into thirds horizontally and vertically, and align your focus with where those imaginary lines intersect. For this photo, I'd cut off the grass at the side and bottom; I find they just distract from the beautiful flower.

Really, this is a very nice picture. I love how the leaves frame and point towards the flower. The way the sun goes, they're just bright enough that they're not a big black mass on the picture, but they're dark enough not to take away from the flower. Very nice indeed.

PM me if you have any questions!

~Rosey

Hey there, Manda!

Ah, photography. It's awesome. And this one is good! As Rosey said, your focal point is dead center, but here it works! I think that because the detail of the flower is obvious that the center spot is fine for this.

However! Although the sunlight from the side is cool for light and such, it detones the corner of your photo and it's a bit washed out. I would use a photo editing program and maybe edit the corner of it. Also, the right hand side behind the flower where all the grass is could stand to be blurred a bit, because we can still see some detail of the grass and that's a bit distracting.

Aaaand, I would contrast this to make the colors more vibrant. Nonetheless, it's a pretty photo, and I like it. Thanks for sharing!

June

Wow, this is wonderful! The flower's very pretty, and I personally think the lighting on this pic is phenomenal. (Did I spell that right? xD) However, the background didn't need to be as blurry, did it? And I like how the sun's rays are in the top left corner, but that other flower needs to be a little more focused, I think. I'm not a photo expert, though, and that was just my opinion!

Great job, and I can't wait to review some more of your works, Mandy!

Hello!

I think this s very pretty, but maybe you should crop the right side a little and move your logo over, so the image is a bit more square, and I think it would look nicer without the extra room there. The lighting in the corner does look nice, but it makes you look at the light instead of the flower...though it does look nice.

Very good, keep taking photos!

~Firearris

Very very nice! I love the way the sunlight shows in the upper left corner of the picture!

Wow, this is really nice... although... did you mean to leave area's of the flower pink or was it an accident? I like how you've captured the picture, but i feel that the leaves could have been brighter and you should have used lighting more... the leaves look dull aswell. try changing the colour of those to a brighter colour, just so that it doesn't look so dull and boring.

Overall, i like the picture and that is one of my favourite flowers.