I have been playing with this idea all week since the challenge was announced. I finally acted on it. I took over 60 shots on two different backgrounds, black and white, different angles, different settings on my camera. This is the one I finally settled on. I don't like the background, it is distracting but I couldn't find a plain white sheet! And paper washed out the silver/grey on the bottom of the bulb, didn't like that effect.
I cropped, resized, sharpened, grayscaled and bordered.
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Wow! Reminds me of my current low, low scores on challenges. I guess my "idea bulb" has been "restructured" much like this one. (Hopefully, soon I will have a 5600 K model reinstalled in its place.)
Oh, well, congratulations on a little "light house-keeping." :) Stan
A really engaging idea here! Composition is nice. Try experimenting with this shot (or a similar one) with sunlight--but in the shade. I think your tones will end up being more pure and natural.
Interesting idea. Two things I'd like to critique on here though. 1) the background is not very image enhancing. I would rather have gone with something without a pattern on it, maybe some photoboard perhaps. This background has a kind of soft feel to it, which is contradictory to a broken light bulb. 2) This image is way oversharpened, a little less USM would have avoided this.
Great Idea!!! But I would have done without the paper-towle! Maybe on an all black background, or solid white background. Great composition and great lighting!!!! 8
Good Points: none, sorry
Bad Points:quality os poor, why shoot on a rasied surface? Also not enough balck in the image to warrant a thick balck border.
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