200 takes to get this just right shot .. combination strobes and candle light. the wb is set to 3000K, rendering the light of the strobes deep blue but preserving the quality of the candle's flame
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Composition:
To my eye the composition of this image is very good the only thing that I would have liked to have tried would have been to place the burnt match slightly lower in the frame.
Background: This would not have been as effective against any other colour background.
Camera work: Good, colours correctly exposed, the smoke leading the eye from one point of interest to the other. May be a little more light on the burnt match.
Digital processing: Not intrusive or overworked!
My Opinion!
What more can I say but congratulations on producing an imaginative and well shot image that fits the challenge exactly.
This is one of my favorites of the challenge. Focus is good. I love the color tonalities on the picture. I don't quite like the blue border, maybe it's better with the black one by itself. But it doesn't detract from the picture for me. Good luck!
This is beautiful. I can't fault it. I especially love the blue theme, a colour that shows off the smoke so beautifully and compliments the carbon on the burnt match. Perfect composition. 10 from me.
awesome. i like the smoke leading my eye diagonally through the photo, right to the still burning flame on the match on the left. your colors on the flame and the smoke are very well, the unburned part of the matches is a little darker than i would like, but since they don't play a big role in this, that doesn't really matter too much. the frame works very well here, too, both in color and composition. i probably would've made the blue/purple line a pixel thinner and the black part a pixel wider, but that's purely personal taste. what you have is fine.
Needs just a hair more light, so the burnt match shows up a little better. Other than that, this is a really neat photo. I especially like the swirl of smoke between the two matches. Great addition.
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