The Color Purple
by firefighter9961

Comment by dtremain:
Glad to see you participating here. It tends to be a tough crowd, but that makes it all the better when you get good comments from people.

I like what you "saw" - the shape and position of the orchid is nice.

With non-DSLR cameras, you'll want to avoid higher ISO settings - these add (typically) too much grain (noise) to the picture. I try to shoot everything for DPChallenge at ISO 64 - as low ISO as I can get.

While people here tend to like out of focus foregrounds, your shot has too much out of focus foreground. They generally like the in-focus area to begin in the bottom 1/3 to mid-point in the picture, and then have the background out of focus as well. The non-DSLR cameras (at least my experience) have a tendency to focus on the background (wall in your case), and not on objects in the foreground.

Again, glad to see you participating here, and looking forward to seeing more of your work.

The Color Purple
by firefighter9961

Comment by CarpeLumen:
this is not purple

The Color Purple
by firefighter9961

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Very grainy. Looks like it was shot at a high ISO setting.

The Color Purple
by firefighter9961

Comment by TygerPawz:
too noisy, DOF doesn't work here

The Color Purple
by firefighter9961

Comment by scrum8:
A little soft and grainy.

The Color Purple
by firefighter9961

Comment by jprezant:
It looks like it was taken with a cell phone :( ?

The Color Purple
by firefighter9961

Comment by emayner:
this photo has a very grainy appearance on my monitor which makes it appear washed out.

The Color Purple
by firefighter9961

Comment by JulietNN:
maybe if one of the petals was in focus this would have scored higher with me

The Color Purple
by firefighter9961

Comment by lunensa:
The fuzziness of this image kind of distracts me. And yet, it makes it almost like a painting, so I'm on the fence. :oP

The Color Purple
by firefighter9961

Comment by TeeCeeJay:
Out of focus and a bit noisy, also it looks pink not purple