The photographer is looking for thoughtful feedback on the image as a whole, especially around the areas noted below.
Feedback Focus: Artistic / Expressive
About This Image
Three tulips dissolve into gentle movement, capturing the fleeting impression of spring rather than the flower itself. Photographed on a tulip farm in RI - handheld
Feedback Requested
A sense of calm - I’m wondering whether the mood or feeling I was aiming for comes through.
I’m definitely not the best to consider ICM but I’ll start off the critique. This is definitely only an opinion - and what you feel is what matters.
The image has a nice blurred background with nice tonal range and a nice relaxing movement blur, everywhere fairly uniformly except perhaps, just top centre.
The 3 flowers are nice and softly rendered with soft cores - very nice.
Pinks and Greens are on opposite parts of the colour wheel which tends to accentuate the boundaries between them and they dont always rest well next to each other. To achieve this a more analogous colour mixture is generally required for peaceful mixtures. Your hopes for this composition definitely work in areas where the pinks swamp the greens.
Three tulips dissolve into gentle movement, capturing the fleeting impression of spring rather than the flower itself.
Maybe try playing with the greens a little to make them softer, lighter and less saturated?
Hope this is of some help. I’ll wait for better minds than mine, who will likely offer more useful ideas.
I very much like where you are headed and the flowers are lovely and soft.
I think I’m on the same page as @Huw_Thomas with this one, Karl. The saturation in both the greens and the tulips and the rather sharp edges on the lips of the tulips and some of the horizontal leaves doesn’t evoke that peaceful feeling in me that your last two ICM’s created for me. I like what Huw’s edit did to the tulips in particular-softening them and converting the structure of the centers to almost a glow source.
