Something that I took on a boring Sunday afternoon while lazing at home, recovering from last night's clubbing.
Comments?
Comments?
ortega said:i think you need to link the picture again
zaren said:hi lil p....
interesting subject and a good choice to present this pic in colour against a clean background. focus looks a bit soft though, not sure if that was intentional? i like the simplicity of form and and colours here, but i feel the viewer's gaze is led out of the right hand side of the pic, due to the right-handed tapering alignment of the joss sticks. i would also like to explore other arrangements of the joss sticks, in which the (red) ends of the joss sticks are concentrated at say the upper third of the pic, to get a different feel to the image.
esmondng said:maybe u can bundle up the joss sticks and frame a shot going thru the hollow instead...? just my 2 cents...
how to move the light to the side when I using my living room lights?foxtwo said:I believe zaren means, to have the joss sticks radiate out from the upper thirds instead of from the centre.
personally, the composition can be improved by utilising shadows by moving the light off to the side instead and with a more engaging bg colour eg yellow/green/cyan, white is really bland. I recc moving back the framing just a little more to better complete the illusion of the red ends 'coming together'.
ortega said:wow! the picture is OOF
could be due to camera shake
lil_princess said:Hmmm, you mean like taking from the angle from the ends of the josssticks?
lil_princess said:Thanks Zaren! :bsmilie:
I used white pieces of papers as the background.
You mentioned about concentrating at the upper third of the picture... what do you mean? :dunno:
But thanks for the comments and suggestion!
lil_princess said:how to move the light to the side when I using my living room lights?
I thought white was good cos i wanted to focus more on the sticks' colours. but probably i should try a different bg colour as you suggested.
lil_princess said:Hmmm, I guess there was... Afterall there wasnt any flash being used, and I was in a very weird position trying to take my subject thats placed on the floor. :bsmilie:
No portable light at home mannz :dunno: Want sponsor not? hehehe... j/k only.zaren said:can use a portable light source....e.g. a reading light placed on one side of the joss sticks, or use the warm sunlight in the late afternoon streaming in from your window.
You should have see how squashed I was, in a limited space. Cos I stupidly placed the sticks quite near the wall, so I was trying hard to be in a position away from the wall.zaren said:very weird position? would have loved to photograph that as a candid shot! :bsmilie:
lil_princess said:No portable light at home mannz :dunno: Want sponsor not? hehehe... j/k only.
This was taken at one end of my living room, the other end has a window lah, but its blocked by plants. Mum would kill me if I would move them! It was quite enough that I used her joss sticks already. :sweat: :sweat:
lil_princess said:You should have see how squashed I was, in a limited space. Cos I stupidly placed the sticks quite near the wall, so I was trying hard to be in a position away from the wall.
But thanks Zaren, for all your suggestions. *hugs*