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Description
This camellia flower tells the story of blight. This fungus when it attacks the flower moves from the outside petals inwards to the centre. The core remains unblemished and perfect for a day and then it too succumbs to the blight. The flower then drops and the petals fall apart.
I found the colour contrast and the texture intriguing. Imperfection is beauty.
Specific Feedback
Some parts of the petals are a bit soft. Does this matter?
Do you see the same beauty in the imperfect? There are so many stunningly beautiful and perfect examples of flora but I feel that the process and effects of decay is just as amazing.
Technical Details
Shot using an iPhone 13.
1.140 sec., ISO 64, F1.5
Focal length 5.7mm
Critique Template
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Diny: This image certainly tells a story and I think you’ve done really well with an unconventional subject. We are so accustomed to seeking pristine blooms that the imperfect don’t even register with us. Good eye to see this and thanks for a fine image. >=))>
Very well done, Diny. Well seen and the perfect petals in the middle of the brown really work well. I knew someone years ago that was renting a house with two huge bushes flanking the front porch. Unfortunately, they bloomed in February, which is the height of the rainy season in the Northwest and the blossoms, though plentiful every year, immediately succumbed to this blight.
I really like the way you took that and turned it into something beautiful.
“Imperfection is beauty” - I would go almost so far as to say that “Perfection is boring”. Nature is ever-changing and a lot of your photos show how decay has its own worth, supporting new life in the process (just as this flower will lead to a seed pod). A fine illustration of nature’s change, with the old framing the soon-to-be-old in a beautiful composition.
This is totally wonderful! As sad as blight is, there is a beauty to the still-perfect petals held by ones that look like rice paper. In their own way they are beautiful too. I don’t see any imperfections introduced by the photographer! Well seen and presented!!
Good eye making a sad condition something interesting for us to see and contemplate. The contrast between fresh and spoiled works very well and there is a strange beauty in the dying and decomposing petals. I don’t do it often, but once in a while a spent or fading flower is a terrific subject.
I’m curious about that softness at the petal edges. The appearance is what I see with focus stacking, where the soft version spreads beyond what the sharp version covers. Do you know if the iPhone focus stacks?
I have no idea if there is an app that focus stacks. Any editing i do on the iPhone is in Snapseed. It does not focus stack but you can do double exposure.
