Same here. Nice creative thinking, which is essential to everything. Crop the grapes and up the color a bit. I think something in the wine glass shot needs to be in sharp focus to pull you eye in.
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:05 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Here is a couple of photos by Galia: >> >> http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2011/07/peso-2011-27-before-and-after.html >> >> Be brutal and honest. > > I love the concept. I hope that she plays with it more. Both grapes and > glasses of wine are subjects that she could learn a lot from practicing on. > > The first one could be cropped in a bit tighter on the grapes. > As someone said, darkening it up a bit could help. > The shadow across the bottom bunch is distracting, if she could have picked > the offending leaf that would help. > > > If she's shooting grapes out doors like that, there are a few things that she > could do that I think would help. One is to position the camera so that the > entire background is in shadows. Another would be to get a reflector (I use > the foil reflectors for windshields, they're cheap and work great) to get > some fill, she could at a time when the light was a bit better (later in the > day), she could also try shooting with the light more from the side rather > than directly behind her, possibly using a reflector for fill. If you have > an off camera strobe, that can be a great way of putting good light on > flowers, or grapes, and darkening up the background. > > The wine glass with the tablecloth is a clever idea. I'd like to see a bit > more depth of field. Another thing that might help would be to do something > the slightly shade the tablecloth behind the wine glass so that it's not > quite so bright, while keeping the tablecloth in the reflections brightly lit. > > I'd also crop in on the middle 2/3 of the right 2/3 so that the bit in the > stem is in the lower left 1/3 composition point. > >> >> Boris >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
