Challenge:Textures II (Basic Editing I) Camera:Olympus C-730UZ Location: my home Date: Feb 16, 2004 Aperture: F3.5 ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/8 sec Date Uploaded: Feb 16, 2004
Picture was taken at home on my kitchen table. Using black sheets and blankets to cover wall and table top.
Two bed side lamps for lighting.
I used a tripod as far away as possible to get good focus. (-+ 4 meters) and zooming in.
Aperture as low as I could.
Taken in TIFF mode for easy cropping
Eventually, picture need very little cropping and NO other changes were made.
What you see is what I saw.
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I think you have done an excellent job on this challenge. I think I would have like the Hot Spots removed on the polished piece yet it does help define the texture.
I think when objects are placed on black like this they feel almost as if they are floating on air. needs something to give it some depth and substance.
Nice image & nice warm coloursm Somehow seems a tad soft, but still one of my favourites. May be marked down as the image is a little centered, but I think it works OK.
The 'floating in space' thing doesn't work for such an obviously weighty and real thing, in my mind. It looks too muc like it's simply an illustration, rather than a artistic work of photography. You light is a bot too overall even to be really effective on those texture also, for me - perhpas from a more extreme angle woth the key-light, or perhaps not filling quite so much might have let more come through.
Beautiful textures in the stone and in the artwork it surrounds. Nicely photographed and presented. This piece of artwork fits the texture challenge, but could use (in my opinion, of course) something original from the photographer to set it off.
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