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Challenge: Abstract II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: My room
Date: Feb 1, 2006
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Abstract, Advertisement
Date Uploaded: Feb 5, 2006

This was a capture of Jean-Paul Gaultier perfume bottle. The orange glow in the corner was the shadow cast from the perfume itself by the light onto the back of the paper that I was using as a curved backdrop.

I quite like the tones of this image but I do see that the orange could be a little distracting.

Thanks cresus for the critique.

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02/19/2006 04:08:32 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Please remember to leave comments when you request a critique. Without them, it's very hard to tell what you were trying for and makes a critique very difficult.

Composition:
There doesn't seem to be any real subject of this shot and what's in focus tends to take my eye out of the image (the round thing on the right). The orange area in the bottom left is also distracting since the rest of the image is this soft peach color.

Camera Work & Technique:
Focus is good. DOF is quite small and doesn't seem to serve a purpose for being so small. The in focus areas don't attract my attention. Lighting looks good with no hot spots.

Post-processing:
It's hard to tell but it looks like the saturation may have been bumped up too much since there seems to be sections where the color changes abruptly in the top left. That may not be true but with the limited DOF it's hard to tell what's going on up there (and without knowing the post-processing steps so please include them in the future).

Suggestions:
You've got this nice diagonal line coming from the top that would be great coming from the top-left corner. Try and keep in focus areas away from the edge of the shot as they lead the eye out of the image. Moving the subject a little to the left in the image would've helped this out a lot. Increasing the DOF some so that we can see the extent of the shape also would've given the subject more interest.

I hope you find this critique helpful. Please feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

Regards,
Zeke Smith
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/11/2006 08:05:31 PM
Hey, this works out very nicely. Great creative shot. Bumping up.
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02/07/2006 07:07:45 PM
Elegant
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02/06/2006 11:49:48 AM
really great
good job
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02/06/2006 09:29:02 AM
Yep, an abstract. I can tell it's some sort of a glass object, but not exactly what. I have to confess the thing that draws most of my attention in the image is the orange area in the bottom left (flame?), and just in general the lower part of the image (more color and texture going on), so overall, it feels a bit unbalanced to me.
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