It's a..a.. FLOWER; Comments and critiques would be appreciated.

[D-B-J]

Yeah, it's a flower. I realize it's nothing special, but i'd love critiques about the post processing. Does it work? Too much of something? Too little of something?

Original(RAW unprocessed)

Edited (LR3 and Silver Efex Pro)

Regards,
Jake

 

[Derrel]

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and yet, a horizontal camera orientation...what there is "too much of" is the dead space on either side of the flower!

 

[D-B-J]

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and yet, a horizontal camera orientation...what there is "too much of" is the dead space on either side of the flower!

Haha. My goal was to balance the subject with dead space for a balanced shot, but i guess not. So i should crop this to a vertical frame?

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Determining the visual weight of empty space is tricky, innit?

 

[willis_927]

I think if you are going to use the horizontal framing with this picture, It might have worked better having the empty space on the right, so the flower was opening into the empty space..