OK this image took me awhile to do. I realised that slinky's are not a photoraphers friend lol
To take this photo I had to tape one end of the slinky to the camera and the other end to the surface, so prevent it moving (and blurring). I then used the remote of the camera to take the photo once the slinky stoped moving completely (which would take a while).
I tried to use the lighting I had available but it didn't work so I had to use the natural sun light to take it.
The background is actually a black jacket.
After many many many failed attempts, this is the image that I came up with.
The edits that I made were you normal things:
*curve (to darken black background)
*burning
*cloning to get rid of some annoying bits
*saturation
*brightness/contrast
*sharpen
Anyway no idea how this will go. Its my first members challenge and its also my first entry in months. I know the image is not prefect but I think its a good welcome back for me :)
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Hi Loretta, my thoughts on your Abstract submission:
Challenge The shot fits the challenge, although you can see that the subject is a slinky. It's not terribly original as there were several slinky shots this week, but it's a fun subject and a good angle on it.
Composition Your composition is great, centering the subject is appropriate here to emphisize (spelling...?) the form of the slinky. Having no ring evenly touching the frame also underlines that the spiral. Good job.
Lighting Lighting must have been a paine in this setting, but you did a lovely job. The pink light gives the image more life, and it looks great.
Camera work Good job on camera work. I would guess f/8 is the minimal aperture on the camera, giving the maximum dof for the shot. Maybe the focus point could have been a bit further away showing the bend in perfect focus?
Post processing Good job here as well, I would think the original was a bit hard to deal with considering the subject. It doesn't look like it is processed alot, which is great. Background nicely darkened out.
Title and info Title is good, plain and simple. Your info is superb, all basic info and the comment field is put to good use, good to see how you set up the shot and what you did in PS. Would love it if everybody filled these fields out like you did (I really appriciate good info on DPC for my own learning)
Overall (my opinion) Nice shot, not terribly interesting at first but grows on you when you take a closer look. This could be a nice desktop photo. All your hard work produced a good looking shot you can be proud of. Keep up the good work.
Hope this helps, excuse my spelling (I'm icelandic)
Great shot, and great lighting, you managed to capture the essence of the downward spiral in this shot simply with your wonderful use of lighting. Great job10
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