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Keeping a Proper Perspective
Keeping a Proper Perspective
jasonlprice


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Challenge: Perspective IV (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: My kitchen table
Date: Nov 19, 2006
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1.3 s
Galleries: Still Life, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Nov 20, 2006

 This is my first entry, I tried to isolate a passage in the bible depicting the birth of Jesus, while keeping the commercialized aspects of Christmas blurred in the background but at 640 px I'm afraid the perspective was lost. My idea was to keep the gifts in their proper perspective..

shot RAW, USM 100 radius .7 twice.

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 11/29/2006 05:55:34 AM
You've got a couple of problems here. Given your intent, you haven't zoomed in close enough -- the print is so small that I can't read any passages, or even reliably identify the book as the Bible. While you've blurred the presents, they so recede into the background that they look more like accidental distractions than part of the intended composition. The presents might have had more impact if you'd kept this in color and lost the manger scene, which is not needed given the other elements. The lamp doesn't add anything to the composition or your intended message, IMO.

I think this could be greatly improved by getting up close to the Bible, so that just PART of the passage (but enough to identify it) you want is in the photo. Maybe but the Bible a flatter angle, but I'd have to play with it to see what's the best position. Bring the presents in a bit closer, so they're more a part of the composition. Lose the manger scene. This arrangement also adds a VISUAL aspect to "perspective" which I think would score better than a photo based just on a more abstract definition of perspectiveas you've done here.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/28/2006 05:56:06 PM
Excellent point, so so image.
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 11/24/2006 08:04:50 AM
Very nice.
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 11/24/2006 03:34:15 AM
nice still life. good tones.
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