...took me only one broken egg, but almost half a day to get a photo I can live with. Shot in bright afternoon sun with ND filter on to get smaller DOF. Completely basic post-processing: brightness, contrast, selective color saturation, USM, Neat Image. A little oversaturated to my personal taste, but I think it will fare better this way. Will see...
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I like the idea behind the image and the lighting is very good it was the good afternoon light that gives the image character with the shadows coming across the eggs.
But it just needs a better composition to make the presentation more appealing. I suppose you could spend hours arranging things and get caught up too much without really stepping back and seeing some more basic aspects. To me the way the image is presented now it would look better if it was in landscape orientation but something I would also do would get the camera angle much lower to the ground to bring you into the subject.
You had a very good concept that just lacked a little extra planning before you shot to get you the score it deserved.
Obviously meets the challenge, and is quite nicely done - I like the light and shade on the eggs themselves, but there seems a lack of colour in the grass. It lacks magic, if you follow me - whilst the light is nice, it isn't fascinating, and the scene itself looks set-up, rather than real: actually, you know, it cries out for the shaping and compositional help you'd get from a real nest - all those curves of materials ...
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