Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Still Life

An experiment in interesting perspectives on not so interesting items...

Was enjoying a fine ale when I decided to take a quick shot. Has a nice mysterious quality, althought the picture could be a lot sharper, just another example of how useful a tripod can be. Used a few filters to boost up the contrast on the bubbles. All in all, not a spectacular picture, but an interesting point of view on a glass of recently poured beer.

I love the repetition in this image. Next time, need to use a tripod and increase the f/stop to get all the lettering in focus. Artistically, theres something cool about it fading to blur, but I'd like to retain the typographic pattern for a bit. Textures real nice too, the light plays nicely on the wooden grain and the corner of the coins. The texture of the coins is beautifully grainy, if that makes any sense...

The exposure is unconventional on this one but I really dig it. Heaps of shadows, heaps of highlights, but it works well. And that one little dot of red on the cell phone really adds to the image I think...pretty stoked about this one.

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