Still Life
by STEINR

Comment by Katmystiry:
Nice still life!

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by STEINR

Comment by edekker:
Nice clock. The clock seems old... perhaps sepia instead to increase that effect?

Still Life
by STEINR

Comment by Pinetree28:
Nice cluster of things well lit.

Still Life
by STEINR

Comment by CNovack:
I really like the mood you are trying to create here. Still life with Literature instead of fruit or flowers. Curling up with a good book on a dark and cold night with just a single light source to illuminate the words of the unfolding story is the feel I get from looking upon this image. Or another way of looking upon it is that the candle is there to provide illumination to the an author waiting to take up his/her spectacles and pen the words of the next classic. I like the details that you put in this composition - the old, rustic and well loved/worn book, the ink blotter with caligraphy pen, and the antique style candle holder. There are just a few things that could go a long way with strengthening the image you have captured here. First the items really need to pop more off off their background. The black backdrop is not nearly as dark and black as it should be and thus serves to distract attention away from the main subjects. Burning and/or dodging or even a selective gamma correction may improve on making the tones of the background a deep black color so the attention is directly focused on the objects in the scene. Also if you could have included some "ink" in that ink blotter it would further strengthen a connection to the pen waiting for the hand of the author to stard penning a new novel. A tighter crop or focus on the main objects would draw the eye's attention instantly and directly to the main objects of the photo. Lastly, depending on what imagery you are trying to convey you may or maynot have wanted to illuminate the spine of the book so the title could be visible (this would only apply if you wanted to convery to the reader the thought of picking up the book to read it by the light of the candle)

Still Life
by STEINR

Comment by jpdeloof:
very beautiful like composition and research, it is a pity a little which the right side of the image is too dark

Still Life
by STEINR

Comment by RKT:
I like this very much, you seemed to have captured an "era" with this image...my only nitpick really is that the picture seems a bit green in cast, perhaps you were trying to get rid of the warm orange glow that so frequently goes along with candle light? Still a very nice image.

MIssed another DPC Deadline!
by STEINR

Comment by sherpet:
clever

Spoons
by STEINR

Comment by jonr:
Good choice of "spoon filings". and maybe you should hafe arranged the spoons to keep the contents in focus.

Spoons
by STEINR

Comment by banmorn:
I'm a little confused by where you want me to look. The composition of the spoons and their contents suggest that I should be looking towards the filled spoons....but they are not in focus. My eye goes beyond them and there is nothing there except sort of a shadow of what appears to be a spatula and it is not in focus either nor totally in the frame.

Spoons
by STEINR

Comment by unneva:
Maybe a greater depth of field would have been better.