again a last-day-entry and I love it (both last-day and the photo!)
used a black piece of canvas for the background. the lightsource was at the left (rotated the photo 180 degrees). I moved the canvas to get a nice black background without the light on it. the spoon was placed between two books. an incense stick beneath the spoon and shoot some!
PS:
levels
hue: cyan -> green, yellow -> 0
USM
straightened the photo a bit
cloned out a little distracting line
saturated the whole photo for upload to DP
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I really like this image a lot. The green really sets it apart. I've seen it several times, but this is the first time I really looked to see how you did it. Good job. My only nitpick (it's it's a very small one) is the line/incense(?) is slightly distracting.
Well, 23rd ain't so bad, huh? And a decent score with an image that has, i think, a couple of obvious flaws in terms of mass appeal. Those are:
1. Lack of visible detail in the spoon itself - that extreme edge view makes the image more 'about' (in terms of what grabs the interest of the viewer) the smoke than 'about' the spoon.
2. The composition of the flow of the smoke. It doesn't go far enough past the spoon, so you get a conflict of visual clues - the eye wants the spoon to be more at a strong point within that trail of smoke, and what you have shown is too far to the top of that trail. And the straight line going up from the spoon is odd: it doesn't fit with the organic curls of the rest of the smoke, nhor with the curves of the spoon - and in an advanced editing challenge you could easily have cropped out that line.
The smoke itself is also not quite strong enough - either more light or higher ISO or pushing in post-processing required - but in the end I think basically a faster shutter speed by whatever means to get it more still and sharp. Take a look at some of Kiwiness' smoke shots to see what gives real impact.
It's not a form of photography that holds any appeal for me, so I'm not going to get into an artistic discussion of it - but I think you did pretty well, with those reservations.
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