Softly

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Critique Style Requested: Standard

The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.

Description

Dug up an old file of flower abstracts from a workshop a couple years ago, and added filters, blurs, and fades. This is fun! More to come..
Thank heavens for live view, focus peaking, and tilting LCD’s.

Specific Feedback

thoughts and suggestions welcome

Technical Details

Software: Adobe Photoshop 2025 + DxO Pure Raw 5
90 mm macro
F2.8
Exposure Time: 1/125 sec
ISO Speed Ratings: ISO 800
Manual Focus with focus peaking
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
live view

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Soft and Delicate Image. My first impression was an ICM. But by reading your description you created this by editing. Pretty Amazing. You have a real gift.
Beautiful Image.

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Stunning image. Very well composed with beautiful background. A definite keeper. My only suggestion, and this depends on how much you alter things, would be to slightly darken the bright area directly above and to the right of the petals.

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Oh, this is just beautiful. I love the delicacy of the colors and focus. The only thing I would change is the frame. It feels jarring to me because it is so thin and sharp - it feels out of place with the delicate flower.

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Sandy: This is marvelous. Simply elegant and beautiful and I appreciate your creativity. Most excellent. >=))>

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Softly elegant, softly simple, softly gorgeous.

A wondrful image Sandy. I will echo Bonnie’s comment about the framing.