White Flower - Critique please

[Atlanticfocus]

Hi everyone.

I am looking for feedback on composition and processing. This is my first time shooting in raw, and using UFRaw to adjust before processing in Gimp. Photography in general is a new hobby for me. I've included the original unedited jpeg and the final result.

Thank you in advance for any thoughts.
Lloyd

 

[dxqcanada]

Your crop is OK, you got rid of the dead space.
Your colour processing is way to the blue side.

 

[john.margetts]

The lower leaf is sharper than the flower. I would have gone for getting the forward edge of the throat of the flower in best focus. You also have a lot of chromatic aberration on the top edge of the flower. This is no doubt the lens rather than processing - have you tried the lens correction tab in UFRaw?

By the way, UFRaw is an excellent raw converter - it uses DCRAW as its demosaicing engine which is the same as Rawtherapee uses.

 

[Designer]

I am looking for feedback on composition and processing.

The composition is good. Did you intend for it be blue?

 

[Peeb]

Yeah, pretty 'cool' as far as tone. My eye saw a warmer image- something like this:

I agree that the composition was very nice. Focus might have been more on the leaf below the flower rather than the flower itself, but seemed useable.

I warmed up the color temp, used healing tool to 'erase' the holes in the leaves', used a blur vignette filter and a few other tinkers btw.

 

[Atlanticfocus]

Thank you to everyone who took the time to provide feedback.
I've reprocessed the raw image to something a little warmer (I did cool the first one intentionally, but understand the feedback).

This was the first time (now second) that I've used UFRaw, so it's going to take a bit of time to learn - I will look up some information on lens correction so I understand it better.

All the best.
Lloyd