Critique my knob ...

[kinetic]

... of garlic?

At home today, trying to rid of myself of a cold with the tried and true remedy of garlic overload!
Below is pic of said garlic. Comments would be much appreciated particularly regarding the cropping (more/less) and the reflection - is it distracing, should I have tried to get a shot with the whole garlic knob reflecting? I have included a couple of smaller pics from other angles as well. Only photoshop for all pics was cropping.




Cheers
K. PS, I have already noted the dust on my floor that shows up in the image and the dust spot on my camera that appears in the bottom RH corner.

[kinetic]

 PS (again) Pics were taken with Olympus C765 point & shoot.

[sheepie]

I'd quite like to see the whole reflection - not sure if it would improve the pic or not, but would be interested to see

[kinetic]

Man it's funny how your opinion changes - I liked these pics when I posted them, but now I've come back to them I'm not so sure.....

Anyway, I took a couple more shots with whole reflection but they were overexposed a bit, and the garlic is now cooked! I'll have another go some time - maybe with a different food .

[big pix]

maybe a different crop..... rather than have the garlic in the centre of the image move it off to the top and side, put it in the cornor of your crop, or crop in quite close..... hope this helps.......

[nito]

First one is the best. But the dust on the reflection is distracting. Interesting idea taking a shot of a garlic knob.

[ozczecho]

No 1. is the best, but like the other posters i would have like to have seen the full reflection...

[SoCal Steve]

Kinetic -
As the first picture was loading I liked it very much until it got to the color reflection at the bottom. IMHO it's the color that hurts it. How about taking the whole thing to black and white? Just my $.02.

Cheers!

[Sheetshooter]

If there HAS to be a reflection then I'd prefer just a hint of it. Softer light might render some of that translucent tracing paper look that makes a knob (of garlic) almost opalescent.

I think the poor old knob has seen better days too. Long dead and wooden at the base. But I guess you don't give a damn about that so I'll shut-up.

If veges interest you then you could do worse than have a look at some of the Edward Weston stuff - Peppers (of course), cabbage, onion. Charles Jones did really beautiful vege shots in the late 19th Century. He was gardener on an Estate and he would harvest them and shoot them within the hour or so and that meant that they were still very much alive -and you could really tell the difference.

[kinetic]

Hey everyone, thanks for the advice, I will have another go at taking some (dust free) pics and try the variations in reflection/colour that were suggested.

I think the poor old knob has seen better days too. Long dead and wooden at the base. But I guess you don't give a damn about that so I'll shut-up.

If veges interest you then you could do worse than have a look at some of the Edward Weston stuff - Peppers (of course), cabbage, onion. Charles Jones did really beautiful vege shots in the late 19th Century. He was gardener on an Estate and he would harvest them and shoot them within the hour or so and that meant that they were still very much alive -and you could really tell the difference.

Yes, I do look photographing food actually, when I can stop myself drooling that is , I will have a look for the photographers you suggested.
And yes - very sad looking garlic.

[Killakoala]

Your knob is looking a bit droopy. Perhaps you need to compliment with oysters and prunes, perhaps a stick of asparagus.......

[informer]

For a P&S camera, that's pretty good, but the theme is a bit lost.

I don't know how to appreciate such a picture.