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Couple of glass shots

Postby rokkstar on Fri May 13, 2005 1:12 pm

Inspired by xerebus, I decided to try out some still life glass shots.
Results are these.
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Would appreciate your comments and critiques and suggestions.

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Postby sirhc55 on Fri May 13, 2005 1:19 pm

Fantastic Matt - all of them - but would crop the right hand side on the first to get rid of the blue(!)
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Postby gecko on Fri May 13, 2005 2:41 pm

Good work Rokstar
I like the colours

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Postby stubbsy on Fri May 13, 2005 2:43 pm

Matt

These work fantastically well although the busy-ness of the last one doesn't work for me as well as the elegant simplicity of the first two. Definitely crop the first one like Chris said.

I'd be curious to know more about the images (like lens used & lighting techniques). These are beautiful.
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Beautiful shots

Postby Yedrup on Fri May 13, 2005 3:05 pm

Beautiful colour, in particular number two. I think the blue in the first interferes with the image both on the side and in the thicker glass at the bottom left.

Number three is good but number two is very nice. Overall the colour effect is fantastic.

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Postby rokkstar on Fri May 13, 2005 3:21 pm

Thanks guys for the comments, I appreciate them.

I was going to actually clone out the blue on the first one, decided against it and posted. I think its detracting too. I didnt actually think about cropping it off!! :roll:

Peter the lighting technique was so simplistic I'm almost ashamed to tell. I had a table lamp diffused by tissue paper behind a see through A4 folder.

Kit lens, f/11 I think, about about 0.5 seconds.
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Postby Glen on Fri May 13, 2005 3:58 pm

Very nice :D
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Postby leigh999 on Sat May 14, 2005 8:37 pm

These are delicate and beautiful - goes to show you don't need fancy equipment to get creative and quality results!
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Postby Neeper on Sat May 14, 2005 9:24 pm

wow, those are really nice. Can you tell me how you got that background?
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Postby xerubus on Sat May 14, 2005 9:37 pm

the first one!! it's wonderful!!

well done and cheers
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Postby Nikkofan on Sat May 14, 2005 10:27 pm

Matt I think these are just sooo beautiful. I love the colours and the elegance of each image and, while it is true that the 3rd photo is not as simple as the others, to me, it has a really "arty" look in its composition which I appreciate, so I just love it anyway. I think these are as good as you would see in any Vogue-type magazine.
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Postby Geoff on Sat May 14, 2005 10:30 pm

Nice shots Mat :) I agree with Chris, get rid of the blue in the first one though :)
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Postby rokkstar on Sun May 15, 2005 11:36 am

Many thanks for all your nice comments guys.

Neeper, the background was just an A4 see through document folder that I stood up in front of the table lamp. Nothing fancy at all. I was searching round the house for something to diffuse the light and this was the first thing I found.

Cheers again guys, really appreciate your comments.
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