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Closing Doors, Opening Heart
Closing Doors, Opening Heart
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Challenge: Still Life V (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D
Location: San Clemente, CA
Date: May 25, 2009
Aperture: f/3.2
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/1600
Galleries: Still Life
Date Uploaded: May 26, 2009

 First challenge on the site so i thought i'd give the Still Life challenge a shot.

The book used had the title Peony in Love. It is a novel by Lisa See.
I found the book that had some relation to love from my friends bookshelf in his beach house in San Clemente and placed the ring inside so that the shadow casted would form a heart. Also i flipped to a page that had a title that had relation to love too so that the heart shadow would have some meaning as well.

Converted from RAW to .dng then saved as .jpg
Turned to black and white and the blacks were increased a slight bit as well.
Low f-stop as well for the depth of field and tried to focus in on the ring, the shadow and the title.

Any critique is welcome.


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Canon PowerShot G10
Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Canon
 06/02/2009 11:21:55 PM
good depth of field, but this has been done b4. 6/10
Canon EOS Rebel SL1
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM
 06/02/2009 10:58:33 AM
It's not really my interpretation of 'Still Life'
Canon EOS 80D
Canon EF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 II
 05/30/2009 10:10:21 PM
The heart formed by the shadow is almost too subtle - almost missed it. This shot is just a bit too much of nothing but a bit too much. I want to like it - nice concept, and well done. Perhaps a crop at the bottom of the heart shadow would get rid of a lot of the extra without taking away the soul of the shot.
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