Bluebells
by Trinity_12_12

Comment by sassay:
i like this one a lot, the composition 'n colors work very well

Courage was theirs...
by Trinity_12_12

Comment by Simpa:
Nice soft grain and soft tones...

Fields of Snow
by Trinity_12_12

Comment by NikonJeb:
Spectacular!

Courage was theirs...
by Trinity_12_12

Comment by Ristyz:
nice lighting. The texture is lovely I do wish the ribbon holding the medal had just a touch more light on it.

Stone Art
by Trinity_12_12

Comment by Artifacts:

Originally posted by Trinity_12_12:

Positives:
Nicely captured tones in a low-key image. Creative and very surrealistic photograph. Love the juxtaposition of the and use of a flower against with the strange watery background. This is a fine photograph.

Technicals:
Centering lighting on the flower is perfect. Tones are very nice. The distended stretching of the flower reflection is photographic genius. Basically centering it in the composition hurts its visual esthetics.

Unfortunately, like most of mine, this image is slightly oversharpened. There are a lot of digital "jaggies" in the water drops. That is to bad.

The challenge:
This image meets the challenge well but I would not be surprised to hear some voters suggest this is 'not low-key enough'. DPC voters can be narrow minded and flat out wrong at times and some of that may have affected your image in voting. I suspect framing played as much or more of a roll as that in lowering the score.

Suggestions:
Correct the "jaggies". There is no substitude for technical excellence. A slight framing change would help to offset the flower from a centered position in the frame. This could be achieved by croping closer to the rightmost water drop and adding more 'negative space' to the left side if that is possible. It is not much but would add more viewer interest to the composition.

Courage was theirs...
by Trinity_12_12

Comment by ashwin:
Nice lighting and DOF.

Stone Art
by Trinity_12_12

Comment by kandykarml:
I remember your post in the forum saying you thought your photo was low key & some voters already gave you comments stating it wasn't.. It just so happened, I had just posted a few comments like that to only 2 people and was waiting for this to end to see if I was one of them..LOL.. Happy to say, I was one of them.. One of your 10's.. lol.. I loved this shot, it is low key and it was very creative.. Great use of thinking outside the box and I wish I could be more creative too.. Loved it !!!

Stone Art
by Trinity_12_12

Comment by kotzie:
very interesting shot...the water is a nice touch

Stone Art
by Trinity_12_12

Comment by kano:
a really interesting image

Stone Art
by Trinity_12_12

Comment by kelbelle:
funky! i like. 8