Challenge:Macro III (Classic Editing*) Camera:Olympus E-10 Location: Woolwich Twp, New Jersey Date: Dec 19, 2003 Aperture: f/2.2 ISO: 80 Shutter: 1/25 sec. Galleries:Macro Date Uploaded: Dec 19, 2003
Picture of my S&W .357 Magnum. This is very hard to shoot (photograph, lol) due to all the chrome on it. Not extreme close up, but close enough as I want to be on that end.
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This is definatly a case of getting a lower than deserved score due to content rather than quality. I know a lot of people rate down photos with a gun in.
I think you coped with this shot quite well. I can imagine it being difficult with all the reflective surfaces pointing in different directions, and I think the lighting job was done well. I think maybe pushing +1 exposure compensation would have made it a bit brighter and slightly more appealing. There don't seem to be many white whites in there at the moment.
Composition wise, I think this way works, but I think getting lower down and including more of the other end of the gun in the distance would have improved this slightly, making it more "up close and personal". Widening the DoF to enable the writing on the gun to be readable would have helped too I think.
One last thing that I think would help the shot is to flatten out the t-shirt. It all seems a bit wavey, which creates a nice pattern in the background, but in the forground it is quite distracting. Also, did you think about using a black shirt instead? I would have made the gun stand out more.
I agree with the subject being of political matter. I wanted to see how the members would vote it based upon the "technical" aspects or the "political" aspects of the photo. This was my first entry. I honestly, just put the gun down on a t-shirt on my desk and snapped it on the fully auto mode on the Olympus E-10 with the macro attachment screwed on. Cropped it and then uploaded it. I didn't mess with anything else. Just pure photo and crop. Thanks for the responses.
It is a personal thing but why not increase the depth of field - it might increase the impact, otherwise an interesting and maybe even provoking shot (apologies for the pun!).
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