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[Saboteur]

idnno how I feel about this one

 

[LizardKing]

To be completely honest. I don't like it that much.
It's not saying anything special to me.

 

[jrice12]

Can you tell us what you had in mind for this image? What your goal was? Art isn't a random act, it is created base on some idea or plan ahead of time. At a technical level I have some problems with the exposure, esp at the critical "last F" and leaf tip point. Maybe drop the background brightness down to recover more detail there. There is a lot of DOF here which might limit a sense of depth (I don't know if that is good or bad since I don't know what you were intending). There is very little color or color contrast (don't know if that is good or bad since I don't know what emotions you wished to convey). Geomtry is simple curves which have a start point at lower left corner - leaf is also curved so we don't get much in the way of conflict). The OFF is strongly bracketed (top/bot) so that seems to be the "message" but it is not associated with any other idea, I don't know what is to be "off", the leaf? There is a sense of "cold steel" and warm life (leaf) except the leaf is DEAD! Do you mean to show cold death?

Anyway, the starting point is to try to describe what you were trying to convey here (emotionally). From there we might be able to evaluate and offer specific suggestions.