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They Are Sweet Onions.... Really, Trust Me !!!!
They Are Sweet Onions.... Really, Trust Me !!!!
Drake


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Scents and Aromas (Classic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D100
Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
Date: Nov 24, 2003
Aperture: F13
ISO: 200 equiv.
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Humorous, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Nov 24, 2003

This was a really "stinky" photo shoot.... A little candle smoke added the "fumes".... Glad it is done!

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12/07/2003 11:12:55 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club.

OK, I see what you were going for here. But, the lighting makes it tough to figure out exactly what's going on here.

As for composition, I think you should have made it ovbiously off-centered, or exactly centered. Either would have worked, but this barely off-centered thing here makes it look like an accident.

Finally, as for the smoke, it is a great idea, and very well captured. Unfortunately, it starts from below your image, so it really just looks like smoke from an unrelated source.

I hope this helps!

Steve
 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/02/2003 03:27:28 PM
The idea of using onions is great, yet the photo is not that interesting. Why the smoke?
12/01/2003 06:03:51 PM
I don't understand the link between the smoke and the onion!?
12/01/2003 02:19:46 PM
You are a very sick person, and I like that.

This is... just... absolutely wrong on so many levels, but very funny. I do wish the flatware was more obvious against the background -- or that may just be lighting issues -- as you really want to call some attention to it given the joke. And while I know the mantra is "centered is bad", in this case, the off-centered-ness does not strike me as the best choice.

Very, very wrong. In that good way.
11/28/2003 01:24:55 AM
Really good set up except the knife and fork the wrong war around. More detail in the cut onion would have been ideal.
11/27/2003 03:44:21 PM
Background is a little dark. I can't make out what is left or right foreground
11/26/2003 03:55:23 PM
This was a good idea to use smoke to represent odor. Unfortunatley there is too much smoke and the plate and silverware is almost invisible.
11/26/2003 12:15:26 PM
I love the steam off them, or smoke or whatever - great effect, really adds to the "smelliness"!!! lol