"Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Ben Franklin
Some may recognize this as a Sierra Nevada beer bottle with the labels removed. This is the best out of a series of tries with different props (other than beer). I had some pretty poor lighting to work with. Levels, curves, increased saturation, removed a yellow cast, neat image, flexsharp, sharpen edges, save for web. I must say I think this is a very boring composition. I had shook the bottle hoping that it would explode when opened but failed miserably, not once but twice, so I gave up and processed this take.
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Courages title to place on the image. I hope you weren't hit too hard by those not knowing the quote it came from.
I do agree with you, the composition could be better. However, it does have a srong leading diagonal (the bottle) going for it. If the opener had been leading to the corner instead of out the top I feel it would have been a bit stronger.
But the composition isn't my biggest worry here. The image just has way too much contrast for my taste. The bottle is quite a bit underexposed while the background is glaringly overexposed. Exposing for the bottle (perhaps stopped down a small amount) would have kept the white background, but allowed the bottle and opener to be better represented. This stark dynamic range is aceented even more by the sharpening done. The end result is a photo that is more 'edgy' than I like.
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