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Culinary Condiments
Paul


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Challenge: Oil (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Rubbish stuff
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Birmingham, England
Date: Aug 1, 2009
Aperture: 22
ISO: 400
Shutter: 30 seconds
Galleries: Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Aug 1, 2009

 The bottles and jars are placed on some black card which have holes cut in; the whole lot is on top of an old radiology light box.

[Aug. 3rd, 2009 11:57:32 AM]

I was really grateful for my first comment which said 'It is too dark' - perhaps this might help explain my very poor score. It looks fine to me and I have looked at this on a number of different monitors; but I wonder how many people calibrate theirs..... I have been caught out with images which have a lot of black or white before so I suppose I should know better!

I think I'll mark this one for the critique club and see what feedback I get from there.

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 08/12/2009 04:54:14 AM
Critique Club

Hi Paul from the Critique Club

First impressions
Intrigue - what was I going to find in those bottles and jars....

After spending time with the image
No, it's not too dark - but it is a dark image and as such creates a feeling in the viewer. I was sure I was going to find hideously deformed medical specimens or coiled parasitic worms in there, the atmosphere had sort of been set with the blackness (culinary condiments being more associated with sunny kitchens). So I wonder if 'too dark' is a feeling rather than a technical observation?
The set up is effective at providing the unidirectional lighting you'd planned and you've created a striking image out of ordinary objects. The most appealing object is the bottle on the right which has caught some extra illumination on the lid, I wonder if a touch of lighting to the top of the jars and bottles would have given a better definition to the scene?

Overall
Technically fine, and an interesting approach has given a good image. I think it's appeal is limited because of the possible mismatch between subject and setting/atmosphere.

Hope that helps :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/06/2009 09:43:39 PM
great illumination. The jar covers disappear a bit too much. I try recognizing them which distracts me from the actual image.
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 08/03/2009 02:41:34 PM
cool lighting.......looks like a science lab
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 08/03/2009 07:30:13 AM
It's too dark.
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