After many phone calls, finally found some quail eggs 200m done the road! Then rusted up a box of nails over s couple of days. Shot photo in the lounge room at home with flash gun. Post processing: auto levels; contrast increased; saturation; resize; sharpen.
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Archeologists have found that in the absence of knowledge as to what Flamingoes eat, rusty nails were fed to flamingoes at Tower of London in its zoo in medieval times...
Love the use of nails. I bet this one took a while to set up. It came out beautifully and the feather adds a lot to it. It might be a bit nicer if it was a slightly closer shot. There seems to be a lot of white space in this photo.
I thought this shot was very well thought out. If you hadn't separated some of the nail bits from the nest look-a-like, it would take a lot more time to come up with what it was. A very odd nest it is. The white background works very well with the rusted nails, giving it a good contrast. The feather added for effect is very innovative as well. I gave an 8 for this shot. Not because it's not an awesome shot, but compared to a very few others it's lacking a few more eye catching element. The background, like I've said works well, but looking at it for a while, makes me think it's too much white.
8 - Like it. Criticism; maybe not so much 'space', or else slightly off centered, not sure. A little sharper focus/definition, ideally on both the eggs and nails, but even one or the other, would have made this better in my opinion. Not sure on the white background, works but, a little 'sterile' or 'empty' type of feel in my opinion. edit:typo
You have an interesting concept here. I think it would have come across better by taking a close up of the eggs, feather and nail without so much negative space and playing with the camera angle.
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