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[GarzaCapitalist]

These are all shot the usual indoors,hand held and mostly manual focus and everything else @ hi ISO! i cant really think of a name so maybe an untalented Dali?

[HDNitehawk]

Garza


Your concept was interesting but..


They say a picture is worth a thousand words, if you had only picked one to show us we would have to figure out your concept here. As it is with so many pictures I can

[HDNitehawk]

I am on my I phone, so I don

[tkerr]

Just my humble opinion. No offense, But!


The lighting and contrast are too dull, and too much vignetting in some of them. I think they would look better without the fruits and nuts if this is just testing the DOF of the lens.


At f/3.2 your first shot is probably the best. The rest of them at f/1.4 and f/1.6, the DOF is very thin, but even at those apertures I should be able to see some point within the picture that is sharply focused. In these I cannot! Especially #2, #6 and #8! Number 8 doesn't even look like you attempted to focus on anything. The few that I can see a point of sharp focus, IMHO, its in the wrong place on a piece of fruit rather than the Violin. And the last one is just too dark, IMHO.

[TakahiroW4047]

For the sake of just identifying each photo I'll number them from 1 to 10, top to bottom.


I'm gonna say that if you were actually narrow down this list down to one I would have chosen just #5 to post.





#1&2 - The eye level looking down angle is overused as the snapshot ange. No use of dof.


#3 - dof is too thin to make out that it is a violin in the background. could have been anything.


#4 was a next close choice to #5, but #5 is sharper than #4


#6 - the vignette is gone from more exposure. The edge of the table is showing and is distracting.


#7 - blurry


#8 - Close to what I said for #3.


#9 - Test shot?


#10 - Same as #1&2





If we were to choose the focus point of this photo I would have chosen the violin. It makes better sense to me that the violin would be the center focus and the fruit would aid in telling the story. But then again, that's where a title would have helped the observer instantly know what the focus of the picture should be. Because I have absolutely no idea how these two come together in a single photo.


So I chose #5 because the violin was in focus with the oof fruit framing the bottom. Overall underexposed, but for the sake of keeping the vignette to hide the edge of the table I'll take it (if you are not planning on doing any post processing).


I would suggest not having the two stacked fruit covering the violin. If you can move it behind the violin or more off to the side so you can see the majority of the instrument. Try turning the violin as well so more of it's sides are showing, not perpendicular the camera. I would even try propping the back end of the violin up an inch or two. I like the texture, but would use a similar but a different surface without any lines in them. The angle creates a leading line that converges off frame to the top and it's contradicting to the focused violin. I would also use a deeper dof because the other fruits are too oof. It just looks like a blur of color. With deeper dof you'll be able to keep more of the violin in focus as well. Try putting your camera on a stack of books for support. You'll be shooting slower shutter speeds.

[GarzaCapitalist]

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[GarzaCapitalist]

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[peety3]

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