An interesting shot with a lot of potential and done in quite a good way. I'm impressed that you successfully managed to limit the amount of chromatic aberrations that you got.
If you could achieve it then I think that you should have attempted to get depth of field of just one knife and throw all the others out of focus. If this was impossible with your camera then maybe you should have tried to get a depth of field so that all of the knives were in focus.
I am okay with the composition that you have, but I do think that you have too much negative space at the top of your picture for a properly balanced image. Also as macro is a fantastic way of isolating just a tiny part of a larger object I was wondering whether or not you had tried a very tight crop of just the blades of the knives? I just held up a couple of pieces of paper to my screen and used one hand to get a very tight crop -- I feel that it makes the picture more interesting and makes it harder to tell what you're looking at. If you have not tried this then I really do suggest that you try it. If I did not explain that very well, then sent me the picture and I will send you back a copy of what I mean.
Good picture with a lot of potential, and well edited. Good luck. |