I was thinking of a good image to make with cheese. Had a bunch of ideas in my head but most of them were too difficult to execute. Like carving a camera out of cheese...Then this idea hit me. I walked over to Walgreens to pick up a pair of mouse traps (1.40$) made my mouse hole in a piece of paper with a black Sharpie and tore a few bits of swiss to lay out a trail.
When converting to raw I tweaked the temperature, sharpness and a few other settings. Then used curves to get the look I wanted.
I really like this photo but I have a prediction that I'm going to get dinged on 2 points that I see as almost irrelevant...
1. "You cut off the mouse trap"
2. "The mouse hole is tilted" or "Your horizon is tilted"..Mice aren't engineers and the tilted horizon is actually an optical illusion because of the crooked mouse hole.
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Seriously, returning for a second look, and I'm amazed that you did not place higher than you did.
I will go along with the crowd and admit that it's over-exposed, but only ever so slightly... not by much at all.
Depth of field was perfect, in my opinion, but a tiny bit less exposure might have made the cheese foot prints a little more obvious.
As for the composition that you were concerned about, I think its perfect too. No need to see more of the mouse trap, we know what it is. The composition adds interest, in my opinion.
This is just a great photo. The scene is just so whimsical and cute. The sharpness and detail are incredible. This photo tells a story, and even if it is a comedy instead of the moody dramas preferred by DPC, I love it. 10!
What I love about this is how cheese is inferred, though I think the DOF is working against you in this instance. What I am guessing are cheese remnants reads difficult against the white backdrop as it is, and the DOF makes it less clear.
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