Gonz: Excellent, excellent suggestions. You've inspired me. Soon I'll head back to the teapots. Big cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gonz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 8:08 PM Subject: Re: PESO Curios in the China Cabinet > Some comments I hope will help: > > 1) the image was taken straight on, try a higher angle to add some > dimension to it. It seems to lack depth for me. > 2) The lighting, though very uniform, may be working against you here. > Try putting the camera on a tripod, and take a long exposure, using a > flashlight to illuminate select parts of your still life, play with > the amount of light you give to each part of your image. I have seen > some amazing photos this way. The uniform light you have makes the > image seem very documentary and lacks the "mystery" an interesting > still life would have. > 3. As others have mentioned, the composition is a bit cluttered. Pick > some objects that are tied together in some way, artistically, > geometrically, or emotionally (for you). Make one object draw the > viewer in some way, and tie the other objects to that object by their > position or meaning. > 4. Try a different background that differentiates the objects from > their environment, like a dark wood, black, or something muted. > > Just my 0.02$ worth, hope that helps. > > gonz > > On 1/27/08, Christine Aguila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Everyone: >> >> Trying my hand at some still life and working some very old flood lamps I >> have. I only used one lamp mounted on a very wobbly tripod with an >> umbrella. Camera tripod mounted. >> >> >> Color: K10D/50mm Macro 2.8 @ 2 seconds at f11 >> small >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6886097 >> >> larger >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6886097&size=lg >> >> >> BW: K10D/50mm Macro 2.8 @ 2 seconds at f11 >> >> small >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6886102 >> >> larger >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6886102&size=lg >> >> Any preferences? Color? BW? My husband prefers color, but I can't >> decide. >> Any suggestions on how to improve the BW? >> >> Cheers, Christine >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
