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24 Mar 23 Reply Tom PickeringI would apply to the sky the same edits as you did to the flowers before you add it to the flowers picture. Mar 20th
24 Mar 23 Comment Beautiful flower portrait. I agree with Bev about the bright areas and the bits of petals in the top right. They are a distraction, but not too much. What distracts me more is the flowers being cut off on the right and left. Mar 19th
24 Mar 23 Comment Very striking! So precise and sharp and geometric. I very much enjoyed this. Mar 19th
24 Mar 23 Comment I like this and think it only needs a minor adjustment: apply the painterly effect to the sky, especially in the lower right-hand corner, as it's too sharp in comparison to the flower. Mar 19th
24 Mar 23 Reply It does in normal mode but not in macro mode, or at least I haven't figured out how. Mar 17th
24 Mar 23 Reply I wish it were sharper, too. I have a lot of hand shake and thought it was passable. Mar 16th
24 Mar 23 Reply Coming from you, that's high praise. d;¬{D Mar 10th
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53 Mar 23 Comment That is absolutely stunning, Arabella. Looks like you can reach out and touch it. I can't think of a thing to improve it. Mar 19th
53 Mar 23 Comment Lovely flowers, Rick. I agree that there are distractions on the right, so I cropped them out but kept the same ratio as yours. Finally, I rotated the image 180°. Thoughts? Mar 19th
53 Mar 23 Comment Cool capture, Miriam. You did a good job emphasizing the steam, but I don't know if I care for the mono.

I took your original and removed the distracting elements in the crowd, blurred the crowd a little, added a bit of sharpening, and finally cropped it to a panorama format. Thoughts?		 Mar 19th
53 Mar 23 Comment Love the result - very soothing and pulls the viewer in for a long study. I think Miriam's update took it to the next level. Mar 19th
53 Mar 23 Comment I agree that, as it was captured, the sky is a distraction from the intended focus, and Miriam did a good job of shifting the focus.

I wanted to somehow keep the sky, so I moved some of it down and blended it into the scene. Thoughts?		 Mar 19th
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95 Mar 23 Comment For me, your modifications made this an artistic piece and the fact that it isn't sharp all the way through it's body is not a concern for me. My only beef is the rather hard edge between the foreground and background which does distract. I tried to smooth that out in this rendition. Thoughts? Mar 19th
95 Mar 23 Comment You did a great job with the in-camera focus stack. I see what Carol is talking about regarding the tilt, but it's not really a distraction.

I do agree with Carol about the background color. Here's a rendition where I ran an HSL filter on the background and lowered the saturation and luminance slightly. Thoughts?		 Mar 19th
95 Mar 23 Reply Here's a look without the distraction in the upper left: Mar 19th
95 Mar 23 Reply I should have done a stack, but I felt it was sharp enough through most of it to stand.

Yes, I considered a diagonal orientation, but it would necessitate pulling back and leaving 1:1.		 Mar 19th
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