Beautiful shot - looks like a painting

Wow! Very good, Mikhail! Those details... beautiful.

Muy bonita esta fotografía macro (composición, luz, color). Felicidades Ana

Welcome to another world! Super and very otherworldly, if you know what I mean. The light here is just magic.

Best,
jon

This is beautiful and I agree with Jon as usual bout the light and the feel. I wonder if the composition isn't a bit too wide and high. I wish there was a bit more of the bottom of the petals and maybe a little less top and left.

Love it! It is sharp where it supposed to be and soft where it supposed to be... and the colour is just amazing!!!!! As I am addicted to the flower photos this is definately going to my favourites :)

thx for the great response, but i think i have an other picture 4 you: www.vazaar.com/photos/id:29714/ ;)

Very nice! I like this one a lot, except maybe next time you could keep the depth of feel a little less shallow so that a little more is in focus.

I don't know what it is but I am really enjoying this picture. I am getting an Elephant/ dog feel of the green on the right. I would love to see this wil a bit more of the red color coming through (i.e. a photoshopped version).

Thanks, Bowden, I actually had this more saturated at one point but felt it looked fake. It's the same impression you get when you look at these little guys at the plant store, they look painted or fake. This was an interesting approach to the color treatment that I had read about but never tried. I first developed this as a fairly high contrast B&W and then using the original color layer and the "Color" transfer mode I put the chroma back on top. It gives this nice grainy/high contrast look. I kinda like it. You basically control the saturation by the opacity of that "Color" layer.

Beautiful, nice framing and an ideal blackground.

Thanks Martine!

In hindsight, I should have separated the two flowers a bit more though. Oh well, next time...!

Wow, scaring... Looks like the Darth Vader of Garden Wars :)

Jolie prise, Joël !

Color is great and the focus and the sharpness is perfect. Good job.

Yes, I am agree - colors are good, DOF and details also. Very erotic image =)

Beautiful work. I also like the special format of image.

Me gusta la disposición,los colores son un poco suaves, quizá un poco más vivos tendrían mas fuerza.

wow!
great detail!
love the color too!

wow, great! You almost want to reach out and touch it :)

Preciosa fotografía. Felicidades, Ana.

Beautiful shot. I like the angle, it makes me wonder what might be inside the flower.

Outstanding colour! Being nit picky, I thing the image could be improved by not centering the main subject. Put it off to one side and use your excellent DOF to blur the other side. But overall, a nice image mate.

I am a big fan of flower photos, but to me it is just missing something. Looking foward to seeing more. Mabye like scott said shooting it a different angle.

Nice macro. But background not attractive and didn't suite for this image!

I agree with Mikhail, the background is distracting, but the flower is lovely and the capture is very nicely done. A higher camera angle exposing the stamen would be more interesting and might have provided a more neutral background.

Seriously great minamilism, wonderful shot

Amazing ~ very zen! I love it.

Incredibly lovely!!!!!

Superhydrophobic!

Thomas - this is stunning. I would hang this on my wall. Wonderful color against an infinite dark background. Very professional looking and easily one of my favorites. Very nice work.