Is this photo too cluttered ? Is the point/subject clear enough ?

too much is in focus, a shorter focal length would help, but also a little alteration of the leaves to bring the one you want as the main subject away from the rest.

Looks fine to me. It's a bunch of leaves, right?

I dont know anything about photography but id say very slightly cluttered... you cant quite make out some leaves... but then again maybe were not meant too?!?!

Not aware of your previous post ,but somebody must have advised you to pick your subject out of the clutter. There is a white perforated leaf on the right of the photograph , you can try to bring that in focus and blurring the background a little.

Firstly - beauty, eye and beholder. Don't worry too much about people getting the 'point' of your photos. Everyone will take something different. Always worrying about how other people will see it when you take a photo is a sure way to madness. You can get some good feedback on flickr. Join some groups and submit your photos. Look for a smaller sized ( <1000 members ) and friendly looking group and you should get some good feedback and hopefully some contacts too. Try and tag you photo with the ideas/feelings you are trying to convey as well as the obvious subject matter.

The subject is not clear. I see this photograph as quite nice but it is decorative, somewhat "art for art's sake." While there isn't anything wrong with with that, it isn't giving the viewer information about what the intent of the artist is supposed to be. It isn't unusual for that to be the case, however. Is this an assignment? If so. the only thing I can think of the photo conveying to the viewer is the impermanence of life.

That picture is very similar to the picture i am doing for my art GCSE. I can see there is a clear diagonal line running through the picture. The sky however is a refreshing blue and i think it would be nice if there was more of it. Maybe you could, instead of using more sky, have a blue flower protruding between the leaves. That would look nice. Overall the picture is of a clear quality and is really nice. well done.

You cropping has too much in focus to have a specific subject... your eyes go all over the place looking at it. It needs something to contrast the overall picture, for exapmle a red flower in focus while the leaves are out of focus... your eyes would be drawn to the flowers color, plus the fact that it would be the only thing in focus, so your subject would be clear. good luck and retake a shot

Anne Its a well exposed picture but the composition is a bit lacking. I assume because the title of the image is 'Skeleton', the main subject of the image should be the dead 'skeleton' of the leaf veins?? The best example of this type of leaf is slightly to the right of the centre and is out of focus (in fact, the point of focus appears to be slightly to the left of the centre of the image). If you want this leaf to be the main subject, you need to 'isolate' it a bit from the background, to give it some impact. You could possible change your point of view so that you shoot this leaf against a clean, blue sky (plain background), OR you'll have to have a shallower depth of field to keep the leaf of interest sharp but blur the rest of the them. I see an aperture of f3.2 for this image, (which is large) but as you are shooting on a Fuji S5600, the sensor size will be smallish & the overall outcome is that shallow DOF is difficult to achieve. Do you have a macro setting? It might be worth trying this.