I took this picture in the hallway of my home. I put a black sheet across the floor and up on to a chair and placed the pumpkin at an angle against the chair. I then sprinkled the seeds of another pumpkin around the whole pumpkin. The light is coming from the front and it was hard to get the right cmaera angle for this picture. I kept having the problem that the glare from the light onto the pumpkin was to bright and interfered with the look I wanted.
I think I took about thirty pictures before I finally got this picuture.
On Photoshop the only things I did were changing to grayscale then bringing back some color then I resized the photo. Very simple.
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The washed out colours don't really help this shot in my opinion. Pumpkins in particular have such wonderful colours it would be better to emphasize it rather than desaturate it.
Also, compositionally it's not strong, perhaps if the fruti was moved to the left or right of the image and the seeds all brought within the shot it would improve it.
I think that more saturation would make this pop more, and I also find the visible folds in the background distracting, as well as the shadow around the bottom and side of the pumpkin.
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