Plenty of shots needed to get the blur on the swinging thing, without actually losing sight of the swinging thing altogether. I would have liked to use the rear curtain flash for motion blur but it put too much light on things that needed to be dark. Likewise the aperture - I had to keep it open because I didn't want the stuff behind the crystal ball to be sharp.
Open - RAW conversion - Rotate (arbitrary from measure tool along the bottom of the background picture) - Noise reduction (smart, or so it calls itself) - Crop - Resize - Curves (slight) - Brightness/Contrast (slight) - Auto Levels - Smart sharpen - Border - Save for web.
And a posthumous yellow ribbon!
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If I watch that swinging pendulum long enough, the present scene reflected in the crystal ball may alter to show the future, and all the while I have tokens of the past within view to ground me - it's like some ritual for evoking second sight. Nice tight composition.
I love the element of the reflecting ball but this whole composition seems just too busy. the lighting is also kind of flat, I would have juse left in the ball red cloth and pendulum, the picture and the beads don't add in my opinion
pure poetry in its purely visual way. Time is a mirror that turns things upside-down instead of backwards. The pendulum points to what you call the past, but the present in the crystal ball is now the past as well, is now a photograph as well. The red tide comes to claim them all.
There is a lot to look at and I am not clear about what to focus on. The pendulum or the globe with the upside down still life or the picture. Somehow I think I would have like the painting as the background without the white around it.
the image has a good concept but it seems a little busy - the beads, the picture, the globe, the background, etc. Consider picking one or two items and photographing them instead of trying to fit all this in the same image
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