Playing around...

mishele · Mar 3, 2013

I had fun but didn't get what I wanted. I'll play again next weekend. If you love it or hate tell me why!! C&C always welcome.:greenpbl:

PixelRabbit · Mar 3, 2013

Very nice lighting! Can't wait to see what you "wanted" to get because this is yummy lol

mishele · Mar 3, 2013

Ahh...I'm pretty nitpicky...lol I'll wait till more people take a look before I say what I don't like about it. lol

manaheim · Mar 3, 2013

Beautiful result, regardless.

Rolls of paper?

Michael79 · Mar 3, 2013

The lighting is nice, the lines could be cleaner. What are we looking at?

pgriz · Mar 3, 2013

I'm thinking Mishele is seeing nits (along the paper edges). The glow at the edges (middle, lower right) seems somewhat artificial - more postprocessing than lighting. I do like the arrangements of the shapes and the curves (yes! I love curves!) which are suggestive, but not symmetrical - a little different. I think GSGARY put up a few some time back, and this is a continuing favorite subject of the minimalist camp. I too am curious, Mishele, what your "success" image will look like...

Mully · Mar 3, 2013

I like all but the glow at bottom of the frame.

Rick58 · Mar 3, 2013

Very nice lighting

ceeboy14 · Mar 3, 2013

Great idea and I've dinked a few times myself with such a project. My nitpicks are the paper fuzzys, middle top left, agree with Mully on the glow at the bottom but my biggest nit is that all the curves (lines) exit the page and then come back in except the ones at the very top left. Once my eye focused on that, all was lost...but still, a good exercise.

oldhippy · Mar 3, 2013

Looks like Art Nouveau

Rick50 · Mar 3, 2013

The lines and the light are both great. Good one.

mishele · Mar 3, 2013

PixelRabbit said:
Very nice lighting! Can't wait to see what you "wanted" to get because this is yummy lol

Thank you, Rabbit! I'll post it up when I get it...lol

Michael79 said:
The lighting is nice, the lines could be cleaner. What are we looking at?

You are looking at paper. :sexywink:

pgriz said:
I'm thinking Mishele is seeing nits (along the paper edges). The glow at the edges (middle, lower right) seems somewhat artificial - more postprocessing than lighting. I do like the arrangements of the shapes and the curves (yes! I love curves!) which are suggestive, but not symmetrical - a little different. I think GSGARY put up a few some time back, and this is a continuing favorite subject of the minimalist camp. I too am curious, Mishele, what your "success" image will look like...

Ahhh...yes..those silly fuzzies!! I also don't like that I didn't get all the paper on the same plain. I wanted more of the edges to be in focus but every time you move something...something else is out of whack. =)

mishele · Mar 3, 2013

Mully said:
I like all but the glow at bottom of the frame.

Hmmm...funny that wasn't something that bothered me, but now that you pointed it out...I can't stop looking at it.

Rick58 said:
Very nice lighting

Thank you. All I used was light coming in through a window.

ceeboy14 said:
Great idea and I've dinked a few times myself with such a project. My nitpicks are the paper fuzzys, middle top left, agree with Mully on the glow at the bottom but my biggest nit is that all the curves (lines) exit the page and then come back in except the ones at the very top left. Once my eye focused on that, all was lost...but still, a good exercise.

What I see when I look at the shot....is kinda a abstract of a flower. I see stems leading up to a bud. I do have some issues w/ the composition being top heavy. These are fun to play, so I play again. Thanks for the comment!!

Bender · Mar 3, 2013

I like it, but there's something off about it for me. I'm not sure I can explain it well though, but I'll try.

I know that its paper because of the edge being rough with the fibers obvious. Then my mind looks for the texture in the paper's surface and it's not there.
It's bothersome in a way that feels off to me. I tried to play with the shot and my initial instinct was to try to smooth the edges of the paper, but it's really the lack of surface texture that nags at me.
I don't know if that makes any sense. Need to go to bed I think

Oh, I'm also bugged a bit by the crop on the right. It feels cut off to me.

All this is nit picking and only because you asked for it.

It's a cool shot and very creative.

mishele · Mar 3, 2013

Bender said:
I like it, but there's something off about it for me. I'm not sure I can explain it well though, but I'll try.

I know that its paper because of the edge being rough with the fibers obvious. Then my mind looks for the texture in the paper's surface and it's not there.
It's bothersome in a way that feels off to me. I tried to play with the shot and my initial instinct was to try to smooth the edges of the paper, but it's really the lack of surface texture that nags at me.
I don't know if that makes any sense. Need to go to bed I think

Oh, I'm also bugged a bit by the crop on the right. It feels cut off to me.

All this is nit picking and only because you asked for it. It's a cool shot and very creative.

I love the good w/ the bad!! I'm glad you took the time to tell me what you didn't like about it. I used a macro lens at f2.8 so the DoF is very shallow. That is probably why there it no texture on the paper.
I'm going to go back and see if there was a different crop that I like.