Red Dahlia

[Anita Bower]

Red Dahlia with Texture by canardo at http://www.flickr.com/photos/duck/40...extures4layers

Dahlia photo taken indoors, natural light, overcast late afternoon, Nikon D300, Sigma 105mm macro.

[Dave Phillips]

soooper colors Anita. Not sure the translucency of the big leaf left center helps the image.
It does add interest but seems it doesn't belong.

Nicely balanced otherwise, esp the bed of petals

[denise ippolito]

Anita, You are really exploring your creative side. I like the composition.The one light piece in BG adds dimension-but I think it looks a bit cut-off on the left. Very neat overlay.

[Roman Kurywczak]

HI Anita,
Glad to see you are making it indoors also!!!.....I'm with Dave on the translucent leaf....but for me it may be too much of a color harmony....does that make sense? I do realize that many men like bold colors.....including me......so take this one with a grain of salt.....but i would like a bit of contrasting colors/conflict here....but it may just be me.

[Christopher Miller]

Hi Anita, Love the harmonious reds throughout and great composition! Agree with Dave on the translucent leaf.

[Anita Bower]

soooper colors Anita. Not sure the translucency of the big leaf left center helps the image.
It does add interest but seems it doesn't belong.

Nicely balanced otherwise, esp the bed of petals

Thanks. You make an excellent point about the leaf. I am looking for another texture to use with this photo.:)

[Anita Bower]

:)Thank you everyone for your helpful comments. I really appreciate them. I love BPN where I can get honest feedback conveyed in a kind and helpful manner.:)

[Mark Fuge]

Beautiful image and colors. Have to agree with the extra leaf. Without that it would be a very worthy image. As is it is still very nice and well done.

[Anita Bower]

:)I appreciate the feedback. Is this an improvement? I'm also going to try using different textures.:)

[denise ippolito]

Anita, It looks like you lightened the BG just a bit. I like it.

[Anita Bower]

Anita, It looks like you lightened the BG just a bit. I like it.

I should have said what I did. I cloned out the leaf veins.
Thanks!!:)

[denise ippolito]

Anita, Now I see- I liked the veins-but it looks nice w/o also. I guess it's really just that one light area. I'm thinking if you blended it at the left side a bit more it wouldn't be so prominent.

[Charles Wesley]

Anita,

I like the re-post. Thanks for sharing...
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