I, too, am just a beginner, but photography has been fun. IMHO, your capture is very beautiful and very artistically balanced, and it is a wonderful start for just obtaining your light room! It was a unique idea to capture the everlasting flowers and in the drying state, upside down, out of the ordinary and really grabs one's attention.
I inverted the colours, and see that the
brightest colours ("Our eyes instinctually find light, bright areas"), is actually the entire upper right background area, and not the flowers at all. The histogram is nicely balanced with the dark areas which happen to fall in about the same ratio in the left lower corner, and midtones diagonally through the center acrosswise... upper right and lower left. For rule of thirds, the eyes surround the upper largest flower open to the viewer, the lower thirds divide between the cluster of flowers on the left, and the single flower on the right. In the
composition adjuster, the flower arrangement best suits the golden spiral arrangement, but then it is the cluster of flowers at the lower left as the focal point and not the bright area nor the largest flower open to the viewer. Your logo, placed where it is in the first area the viewer looks into, actually helps the viewer come up and around the bright area, and use the stem lines to go around and back done following the petals out of the image. The one petal pointing up through the bottom of the light source helps to complete the circle, but stops the eye from the bottom. But it is so beautiful, that one makes the circle a few times around the flowers. The other wonderful thing which highlights the flowers is the blue background which is a contrasting colour to the yellow in the flowers in hue and value. Because you were brave to use a number of blooms, you do have foreground, middle ground and back ground, as the flowers tend to be in front of each other to create the depth of field
Can you, in the light box, arrange your camera to allow a flower to be in front of your light source, as you would put a bright afternoon sun behind a tree to allow the glow to provide backlight, but not take away from the scene with the glow of the sun. That way the light would work as a vignette or halo effect, accenting whichever flower you want to draw the viewer's eyes toward.
Thank you for the opportunity to ramble, and to view your creation! I now need to have a peek at
life images by Jill's blogspot