Used a 60W bulb. Levels, curves, minor cropping, resize, border. There was this compromise between showing the light on the neck and the lip of the bottle and subduing the garlic (i guess didn't do a good job on the lighting :) and i fiddled with curves forever. Decided that showing more of the glass probably would be more palatable to voters and the garlic ended up brighter than i wanted to. This dark shot probably will get creamed by the voters anyway but i learned a lot from it and, despite the flaws, am pleased with this. This is the second time i feature garlic in a dpc challenge. Yes, i love garlic! :)
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Thanks mav :)
I still like this image and where i was heading and will sorta re-do this lateron. The set-up was very much *me* and don't give a hoot that the glass wasn't the focus or that it belonged in 'food' or 'Italy'. I like scab-lab suggestion. Was thinking of a diffuser but couldn't come up with something effective.
What baffles me is that during daylight from the same monitor i have seen this image and at times it was somewhat clearer and you could see more of the neck and the lip which made a big difference to this img.
I like your negative space in the upper right. The garlic follows the curve of the bottle - I like the glint of yellow above the tip of the garlic. The two little garlics are also a very nice touch.
Now - the only problem *I* have is the bright reflection. I know how tough lighting is and it looks like you played with this to get it as close as possible. Also, knowing what I know, you pushed yourself on this image and I think that's as good as possible - but consider bouncing the light or diffusing it - as a way to light more of this and pull it out from "dark" comments.
Excellent work - I was among the multitude of 7's here. :)
Maybe a small light placed behind the olive oil bottle would make it glow even more.Looks like there is something back there, but the garlic blocks it too much. Nice idea.
either that's a giant clove of garlic or a small bottle of olive oil ;-) i think the photo is well composed and executed. you might consider putting black paper/cloth on the table that blends in with the faded background to give it a more studio look.
I could have graded this much higher if it were entered in a 'cooking' or 'food' or 'Italy' theme. As it is, the fact that the bottle is made of glass is just an incidental thing, and I had to leave more room in my voting range for photos that were as pretty, as well-composed, that made the glassness the star.
Wonderful image, well set up and the lighting is very fitting. Your border also fits the image perfectly which I can't say for too many borders I have been seeing lately.
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