Many small colored pepper corns and some rock salt in a yin yang pattern. Glued them on yin yang template that I printed out on a red background. Changed to a brighter red later with PSp. Used auto levels and Unsharp Mask.
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this is simply awe inspiring....crystal clear...bright and close...I feel like I could reach out and touch it...very nice....and I love the ying yang pattern....just love it!!!!
Really awesome image. It just draws you in. I think i sat for a while just staring at the salt crystals. I thought they were white rice and the pepper corns were lentils or something vegan. I love it!! Nice work.
I am making an assumption here that you took out the background digitally. If that is the case, try shooting on colored cardboard or paper. The edges on the outside need some work. If I am assuming wrong, I apologise. I am giving a rating between the two.
Very creative! Cropping seems to be fairly even just by eyeballing it. Colors of the pepper look nice and clean. Salt crystals are white and detailed. The only thing I can complain about is the entire edge of the yin yang design. It appears that this was selected off a different background (obvious, I know) but the part I'm talking about is the sharp edge between the salt and pepper and it's very "edgy". If you applied a light feather to that and then slapped it on the background, it might look more natural and less edgy. Overall, an excellent entry. 8.
The salt crystals and peppercorns produce a good texture. Unless the background was filled in with photoshop, the symbol appears to be floating, creating depth in an otherwise 2d view. Very nicely done.
A possible imprvement, if this was elevated from the background on glass would have been to give it some above-side lighting to cast a shadow for even more depth.
I like the closeup detail in this shot, as compared with the several other entries that attempted the same thing. The rock salt gives nice textural contrast to the whole peppercorns. I don't like the background though. I don't know if you masked it out but it looks very unnatual to me. I would have preferred a more appropriate setting for the subject and natural shadows.
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