Ircam
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Right, didn't think of that either ! Thanks !
So those are part of my early shots. I think (to answer to the why questions, Lew) in retrospect that I was just looking to create a picture whose colors matched and were pleasing to the eye, I was going for the feel of it. Which might explain the closeness to the unexeptionnal coffee machine dial. It was just that this was the only framing possible (or what I thought was the best one) to get those colors, that set of tones, but indeed not particular meaning of both the coffee and the coffee machine other than they looked good and contributed to the feel I was looking for. For the photo of the buckle and book, I was going for that vintage/retro/worn feel.
As for the jam/spoon picture, I just couldn't frame higher and include the spoon and shadow because that was the edge of the plate, and the surface underneath it wasn't that great. But OK, I get the point. I thought the movement in the 'placement' of the jam was a foreground subject of enough interest though ? Oh but right, it is oof, so that kinda undermines my argument of it being a good subject of attention (am I not mistaken here ?).
For the buckle thing, I am aware that indeed the ' 'Such a perfect book' Nick Hornby' is being made the center of interest because it is in the buckle though it's not, I indeed didn't want to show specifically that. I wish that thing wasn't on the cover of the book but it was. But the title of the book is in the buckle, and that's what I was going for, and leaving the name of the author outside it (I'm aware that it is a bit hidden by the thickness of the buckle, that's not good I agree).
Timor,
Yes I do agree for those two pictures indeed. Would you have said the same thing if the blur was lessened ? Because, as I mentionned, these are my early pictures, I don't have a very good control of the amount of blur I put on OOF zones through aperture and focal length manipulation.
For that picture, you're referring to the rules of composition, but the focused herbs heap is at the intersection of the lines of the rule of third, isn't it ? A bit off to the left, but still on the horizontal bottom line ? Plus the alignment of the heaps (I'm not sure that's the right term sorry) diagonally through the frame creates some sort of order, doesn't it ?
Ok, I understand that. About #2 (buckle and book), what if the title of the book was clearly in the center of the buckle and if there wasn't that other text lines (' 'such a perfect book'...') under it ? Would that have clearly shown that the title of the book was what I would have meant to put forward ?
I agree that the whole front part of the guitar is some kind of flat grey, but what about the pick ? It is sharp, has a good contrast and the name of the guitar brand printed on it, so wouldn't the flatness of the whole picture draw attention to the sole pick ?
The strings running diagonally across the photo also create some sort of pattern to me, am I wrong to think it is a (relatively) good element of the composition ?
As for the tea thing (it actually is a filter, hanged upside down by a photoshopped out piece of string) :
Concerning the "drown in shadows" : I kinda liked the fact that it was 'surrounded by nothing', the big amount of black 'pushing' (I felt) the attention to the reflection of the flash onto the inscriptions/sculpted patterns on the metal on the side of the object, and in your crop Timor I don't feel that.
I tried to put more space at the bottom and right (for the original picture, or bottom and left for the mirrored picture), but then the whole scene ended up being in the dead center of the frame, I didn't like that. I thought that the bottom of the light cercle on the woodfloor could be legitimately out of the frame as it is not the actual subject, a bit like the bottom of the neck in a portrait of a person.
In any case thank you very much for your comments, I really found them constructive and they made me look back and analyze what I did, and, most importantly maybe, why.
Lucas
