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    Default Orchid Sisters

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    I took these two beauties at Longwood Gardens in Pa.

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    Orchids look great, I suspect the tight crop is for good reason e.g. to exclude other distracting petals. I am not crazy about the dark background in this particular shot but the detail in the flowers is excellent.

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    Lovely orchids with nice colors and details. I am seeing some unfinished processing on the edges of the pedals and the left upper side of the frame? Could you explain how you arrived at this black background please?
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    Hi Bob. Lovely colors and good sharpness on the center of both flowers. I agree with Marina that the black background needs more work to clean it up. This is a rather unconventional crop that will likely elicit differing opinions. I would wish that the petal at the top of the frame wasn't clipped. Overall, this is a very nice image and some tweaking on the background will make it shine!

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    I love Longwood Gardens.The orchid looks Great Bob.Prolly a couple cloning to the BG will enhance the image even further.

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    Bob, the flowers look great but the crop is giving me trouble. I think that since the top and left petals are partially cutoff, I'd consider cropping in tighter on the left, top and right. There's a bit of green showing at the edge of the UL petal that's a bit distracting.

    Here's a tighter crop which shows what I had in mind. I also removed the bit of green mentioned above. I tried cropping a lot more from the top to balance the locations of the flower centers but I wasn't thrilled with the results but you might give that a shot and see what you think.

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    Thanks for the suggestions... I decided to add some canvas to the top and bottom .
    Marina....The bg was in shadow and then i darkened it but did miss afew spots....I will clean it up...thanks!

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    Very sweet image of beautiful orchid.

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