I once again grabbed my trusty wireless flash and set it out of shot so that the light would pass through it to create interesting shadows. In this regard I don't think i was as successful as I would have liked, having envisioned longer and more defined shadows. So I focussed on the object rather than the shadows it created and the nice contract between the shiny metal and the wooden floor.
Thinking about it, for longer shadows I should have had the light closer to the object with maybe some paper wrapped around it in a funnel to shrink the light source. This I may try again at some point.
All in all it's quite nice. Notice the final professional touch, i've added a little © thingy in the bottom corner.
Post processing was all done in Aperture and I brought down the saturation a teensy little bit, upped the contrast and slapped on a MASIVE vignette.
Constructive criticism is encouraged! Tomorrow i'm going to try for a triptych which is a series of three images usually with a similar theme, meaning or story presented as one piece.
Until tomorrow guys.
Gordon
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The © thingy is what makes it complete! Just look how shiny that dirty surface is!
ReplyDeleteI just like zooming in on shiny photographed objects to see what's in the reflection.
As a picture on a judgemental level, very well polished (if you excuse the pun) the vignetting helps dram you in on this usually mundane, much forgotten about, object and gives it the centre spotlight, much like for example, you would put a designer top on a tooth decaying zombie to centre piece the front page of a prada magazine :)
Thanks for the comment! If you zoom in you can see me in the door knob thingy!
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