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As the saying goes, "a watched pot will never boil."
As the saying goes, "a watched pot will never boil."
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Challenge: Waiting (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Olympus C-700UZ
Location: Elmira, NY, office lunchroom
Date: Jun 8, 2004
Aperture: auto
ISO: auto
Shutter: auto
Galleries: Humorous
Date Uploaded: Jun 8, 2004

 Nothing special. Put a pot of water on the stove. Set an old watch on the handle. Put a mug, spoon and teabag in to balance the photo, and turned the stove on, and waited..and waited for the burner to turn nice and red, and little bubbles to just start to appear. Used my old Olympus C-700, no flash... just the light over the sink (to the left of the stove) to illuminate the setting.

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 06/22/2004 10:06:16 PM
From the Critique Club:
This is a clever diagonal composition. You have cup with spoon at upper corner, the pot and its handle. You threw the extra weight on the pot handle with the watch and so the eye travels up and down on the diagonal. Notice how the spoon reinforces the top and note how it blends in with the green line of the cup. I am sorry if I overreach to recompose, but I would have rotated the spoon handle opposite the cup handle. This would give me a T compostion to break the straight diagonal line and bringing the other burner into play. Another flight of fancy would be to move the cup a little to the left and place the spoon with the handle just over the lonely unused burner. The bulb on the spoon would have filled just a bit more of real estate.
The watch is well placed. It keeps the eye from slipping off the bottom right. Pictures like these depend on delicate placement, because you are composing an image. It often helps to squint your eyes as you compose because it helps to find the universally accepted modes of design. Nothing is really new. It is mostly old wines in new bottles.
I think you did nicely here because many decisions must be made to make a simple composition and sometimes, the simpler it is, the harder to execute. By the way, creating these types of scenes will certainly sharpen your design and compositional sense. Good work. dan

Message edited by author 2004-06-22 22:20:03.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/15/2004 11:59:00 PM
I wish you had put the pot a smaller burner and really cropped in on that watch. Clever idea.
 06/15/2004 11:10:55 AM
Funny.
 06/13/2004 06:33:19 PM
the watch would be even better IN the pot. I'm a sucker for bad jokes
 06/10/2004 08:49:14 PM
very clever
 06/10/2004 07:14:34 PM
adding the watch doesn't help
 06/09/2004 04:48:22 PM
cute concept. I find the wall a bit distracting from the meaning of the photo - what if you used the other burner in front?
 06/09/2004 01:40:16 PM
So that's what they mean by a "watched pot!" Nice capture - I especially like the red in the heating coil. Not sure the side wall does much for the image.
 06/09/2004 11:23:56 AM
cute


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