Greetings from the Critique Club!
Nice enough macro of a bee, I've tried shooting the little beasts and it's not easy cause they wiggle around so much! Insects are very bad at taking direction :-)
However, it really doesn't meet the challenge description of being a profile or side view. Voters here tend to be very literal and if you look at the challenge winners and HMs, well, you can see that they are all profiles, not an overhead 3/4 shots. It would have been far better to track after the bee as much as possible and shoot til you got a true side view. And if, despite all your best efforts, you just can't get a good shot - either choose a different subject or simply opt to not enter.
Apart from that, the giant oof blotch of purple to the left with the circular highlight detracts greatly from your subject. It would have been hard to crop out and cloning it out would have a lot of work, which is all the more reason to change angles and not let such extraneous details detract from your subject.
Hope this critique has been of help, feel free to pm me with any questions.
Susan |
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