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03/13/2008 09:52:54 AM |
| I will refrain from the obvious pun. I like the scratches or tooling showing up on the inside of the head of the tack. |
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03/12/2008 12:58:42 PM |
Hey Jess. Thanx for the shooting info on this one. Like that you left the shadow and shape of the mushroom cap. This image is suffering hard from 'low light' noise At 2.8, 320, and 1/15, I reach psychically into your image to see that you are handholding this shot with available light (I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that you are.) Give yourself two advantages. 1) Gorilla Tripod ($20-$30) for stability and 2) Tin foil reflector to create a spot light effect and gain that extra bit of light you want right where you want it.
Depending on your software, you can remove most of the 'yellow/red' haze that has appeared here (camera saw gold and thought that the surrounding light areas must equal white). The surface here if shifted to white or grey might help to redefine areas of soft focus in the tack.
The focal point in the low spot in the tack's head is subtle and unexpected. very nice! As a voted challenge entry , DPC members would clobber it. This is however a great practice tool and in a side challenge very worthy of study. Like to see you take this with a full white surface, targeted and reflected white light, and a more head on approach (tack off slightly so we are led into the mushroom cap)from the pointy end, but leaving the focal point exactly where it is now. |
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03/11/2008 07:30:16 PM |
Woo Hoo! I get to be first to comment that this is "sharp as a tack" : )
Actually the focus is at the far side of the cupped cap of the tack. It makes an interesting subject because of the shape, and the texture in the metal there. The shadow like a reflection is cool too.
You didn't post shooting info, but I am guessing from DOF that aperture was about f 5.6 or 8. |
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03/11/2008 06:15:29 PM |
| I would have liked to have seen this at a different angle revealing the underneath of the tack. That shadow is distracting but again, it reveals the shape of the object. |
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