This strawberry is less than an inch long but this is the full crop. I didn't want a full abstract that this was completely unrecogniseable....but I wanted something that was not normally recogniseable by the normal viewer.
100mm Macro and a 50mm reversed.
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first of all - that image title is obscene! LMAO... ok, it's creative.
I liked the DOF and especially that green leaf on the right corner. I would personally bumped the contrast up a little, but that's just me. Nice photo nonetheless.
Abstract as I perceive abstract? Yes. This works well as an abstract and is still mostly recognizable - would have taken me a minute to figure it was a strawberry.
Do I like it? Yes.
Technicals? Composition is very good; good use of color and the diagonal corner. Also very good use of DOF.
great abstraction!
the colors and shapes are lovely. i have two suggestions that you can take or leave as you please:
- don't feel married to the 3x2 format of your camera. in this case, i think there's a bit at the top and a bit more at the bottom that could be cropped off. the seeds and the veins in the leaves are beautiful, but the top and bottom of the frame are nothing but blurred areas. possibly 5x7 or 4x3 would have suited you better.
- IMHO, the importance of capturing a full tonal range (in most cases) cannot be overstated. you have lovely gradients and lighting, but virtually no white. especially with a solid white border, the image itself winds up looking dark and underarticulated. for this picture, possibly some dodging on the light areas circling the seeds would have added a bit of welcome 'pop.'
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