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Doug Milne commented on Rita Haft's Photo 5 years, 3 months ago
Hi Rita- this is looking good and I like the stems and petals you added. It is a nice horizontal composition, but I would prefer that the flowers were a little higher than the flanking details. Maybe think of a adding another flower to the bunch that would be close, but above the other two blooms. Especially with dark, saturated colors you are not going to have bright highlights on the petals because they are not shiny, but they should have lighter areas where highlights would be and you are correct it looks better when you are planning on the light areas from the start instead of adding them later. As you know, having the range of darks, mid-ranges and highlights give your flower it’s form. You don’t want to have a blanket saturation on all of the petals and I know you are working on that. I am sending a picture of a pansy I did that hopefully will be a good reference for you. Pansy season is coming and they are great subjects to work on for deep, rich, saturated colors. I work on new ones every Spring. Keep up the good work!