Bleeding Hearts

This is one of the first pictures I took that I really felt was a good picture.

ahh the beeding hearts...:)

The more you hang around, shoot and practice the better your photography will become. The main problem with this image is that the main subject is not sharp. Take a close look; at least some of the hearts should be tack sharp.
Hope that helps
Marko

I'm with Marko on this ... it could have been a very good shot if there some sharpness to it.

Also the blue flower is a bit distracting ... I'd have cloned that out as well.

The composition is nice though.

Some of the softness may be due to the uploading. You will find if you host your image elsewhere(Flickr, picasa,smugmug....) it will look sharper.
This is a good start and a good composition. I agree with MA about the blue flower. A tighter crop could remove it.

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Originally Posted by marko

...The main problem with this image is that the main subject is not sharp. Take a close look; at least some of the hearts should be tack sharp...Marko

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with the possible disclaimer that most shots uploaded here seem to lose sharpness? I'm not alone in noticing this so might be a bit unfair to expect "tack sharp" unless one compensates by oversharpening?

That's true F8

So far it has been my experience that ONLY compressed images are softer.

(though I did tweak some settings yesterday) I don't think this image was compressed.

Images that are less than 150k and are uploaded directly look great.

thx - Marko