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12/18/2005 04:42:00 PM |
| i really like the underlying story portaied here - i do which you had used a bit more light on the books so the image would have been focused throughtout insead of just the candle being crisp. Bumping up. |
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12/18/2005 04:00:18 PM |
| Nostalgic... the weathered books, inking jar, old time glasses and that candle holder... just makes me want to curl up with a Charles Dickens book or something. And the tilding candle just adds to it here. I think if it were perfectly straight, in this setting, it wouldn't look right. |
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12/15/2005 06:51:43 PM |
| interesting still life - i would have liked to see a secondary light on the book though to show more detail, its a little dark and hard to tell its a book |
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12/13/2005 06:30:42 PM |
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12/12/2005 06:02:31 PM |
| Nice cluster of things well lit. |
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12/12/2005 04:45:36 PM |
| 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) |
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12/12/2005 09:24:23 AM |
| very beautiful like composition and research, it is a pity a little which the right side of the image is too dark |
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12/12/2005 04:47:29 AM |
| 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. |
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