Macro of 3 gears on an envelope, sunshine is lighting.
USM, crop, channel mixer for b&w conversion and to get high-key look, despeckle, curves, resize, USM, add border.
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This is really close to being really nice -- I very much enjoy the graphic aspect of the image, but the technical details -- particularly sharpenss and/or depth of field, alignment of the subjects -- leave something to be desired. I think that shooting with a small apeture would get all three gears sharp.
This is a really nice idea swallowed by the blandness of the plastic. Hard steel and making the shadows long and upwards like mountains using more of that dead white space, or anything but grey lifeless plastic.
I like your idea here. I feel some real potential in the concept. I like the simplicity, and your use of rot and negative space, and the shadows are good. I think the focus could be sharper though, and maybe if the gears were at a slight diagonal line with a little bit (just a touch) of offset (space) between them it would improve the shot.
You took such a simple image and made it spectacular. I love the crop with the 3 gears all on the left. The shadows are wonderful and almost appear as another set of gears! Losing a little focus on 2 or 3 gears.
I'm not so sure if the strong side lighting and resulting shadows add to the aesthestics of the image. DOF is too shallow and the foremost gear struggles to be in focus. The negative space is a nice touch, and your border is subtle yet effective. Overall a nice enough entry which I think suffers from choice of lighting and depth of field.
High-key shots are tricky to get right... in this case you seem to have lost a lot of the detail on the edges of the gears, which is a shame, because I like the simple composition. A wider depth-of-field might also have helped.
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