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thanks for your comments..

Landscapes, portraits, and now flora, I like your style and sense of composition.

Exceptionally beautiful composition. Best regards.

Beautyful!

Regards, Nebojsa.

 

Simply a Great Image!!!! Tom

Nilgun, this is some of the best composition i have seen here in the flower section for some time. Which led me to your portfolio, which was a real treat. really like your snowscapes, also your waterscapes. All the best.......roger 7/7anon

One of the best images I've seen in a while....thanks for sharing it

Beauitfull composition with subtle tones

in my style ... :-) on my taste .... Superb !

7 / 7

You have a beautiful gallery.

Great high-key composition,

I only would have filled up more the picture, but it's not a critic :-)

 

Superb the water on the left and the glare :-)

i love the differences in white,,,,and especially the blurred glass which drives me crazy

Is it a good example of breaking a "rule" (or guideline, to avoid discussion there)? There is a lot of space on the right adding totally nothing to the composition. The central placing of the flower vertically is fine, horizontally I don't get the idea it's optimal. Probably the first time I write this, but I'd suggest a crop - probably to a 3:2 portrait format. Loose the empty space, and gain a more dynamic feel from the stem of the flower. I really feel it would make the photo swing a bit more.

The photo itself - nice, cute, there is some sweer tenderness in it and I like how the reflection works. And after having seen the photo, I smile and move on. It's not a photo that'll stick in my head - and that's not necessarily a bad thing. For all I can see (judging from this photo, and nothing else), this photo does not aim to be more than a nice, cute photo. It succeeds at being that without any pretentions for more.

My first impression was maybe along the lines Wouter suggested but then, I did reconsider.

To me, the weight of the central seed area and the slightly low and off center placement of the flower result in what seems like a fairly, well balanced composition. That isn't to say that it couldn't have the right side reduced, but I think it works as it is as well.

The title is interesting though as I do feel that the near central placement and scale of the flower don't relate "petite" necessarily, but maybe that is just me.

The image is nicely done but It isn't necessarily one that carries me beyond the frame. It has a more utilitarian feel to it, like many commercial illustrations, but again, nicely done in that context.

Nice concept - beautifully executed.  Love the reflections.  JK

I like this image. It's a clean looking, high key table top picture. I like the simplicity of the idea and execution. The design parameters are rendered simply and boldly and are quite eye catching. The slight warmth to the picture is not bothersome to me but I think this would look fine converted to B&W. It's a classic example of a color image that gains no benefit from being in color.

I disagree with the Elven assertion that this is a good example of breaking the rule of thirds. I feel it is an example, just not a very good one and playing with the image I configured a number of crops that I feel work better compositionally.

I didn't see the mention of the "rule of thirds" in the intro and wonder how this has become such an important criteria in photography--not that it can't work but more its suggested dominance as a theory. If anyone is interested, this thread http://photo.net/philosophy-of-photography-forum/00bytF will illuminate my position after a great deal of research into the topic and its genesis. (if you have any questions or comments on this, please post them over there and keep this focused on the POW--thanks)

If the "face" of the flower had been turned slightly towards the empty right hand space, perhaps there would have been a little more movement in the image, and also it could have told a story about a flower attempting escape. I think it is initially a pleasing idea and I like the monotone treatment.

"Breaking the Rule of Thirds"? If ever there was a "rule of photography" that's meant to be broken, it's that one. I don't think I've consciously paid any attention to it in over thirty years. So using that as some sort of a criteria for making this photo POTW is pretty meaningless.

Regarding the photograph, itself, I like it...I like the "whiteness" of it, for lack of a better term. I like the detail in the flower and the overall depth of field. It's a simple photograph that works really well because of that simplicity.

A lot of the so-called "Rules of Photography" are outdated and meant to be broken. This photograph breaks one very well, even if it doesn't break it all that much.

Interesting comment by Stephanie regarding turning the "face" of the flower slightly to the right. That also would be more in keeping with the angle of the stem leading back to the glass. If left as is, then I lean toward Wouter's idea of cropping some from the right.

All that said, it is a very clean image, a bit out of the ordinary, and given a certain whimsicality and personality by the placement of the flower. Almost as if it is resting on its "chin" after an exhausting movement down and forward from the glass (the spilled water at left is a nice touch and adds to the whimsicality of the photo).

I, like Jim, never contemplated this as a rule... As for the image itself, I like Stephanie's suggestion of turning the flower slightly to the right. Overall I think it is a simple, clean and interesting composition

I'm not so sure that the rule of thirds is as significant in evaluating this image as the fact, per Wouter's point, that there is simply too much space to the right of the flower. A simple crop would cure this.

Otherwise, in my opinion the image has primarily two strong elements: the DOF, and the tonal range.

Amazing!

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Too much space for what? Should every photo be centered just so? If so, I guess I've made a bunch of really bad photographs over the years.