The Fallen Fruit

[Photographyiscrack]

Another pic I posted on 500px Advice, comments, thoughts? Please and thank you

 

[snowbear153 83]

Interesting but, for me, the foreground overpowers the image; there seems to be too much of it.

 

[weepete]

Looks like missed focus to me. The thin depth of field is in front of the fruit, like the camera was on autofocus and picked the stick and the leaf. Compostiton is a bit lacking too, very central, leading line of the stick takes the eye out of the frame, negative space on the RHS with nothing to balance it out, bright foreground spots compete for attention and very flat lighting. Not one for me I'm afraid.

 

[Derrel]

That lens does not give pleasing, tranquil bokeh on out of focus high-frequency detail; look at the way the out of focus stuff to the left side, and across the top of the frame: this is "jittery" or "nervous" bokeh, on small, high-frequncy detail stuff. Not all backgrounds are made up of that type of natural-world stuff; I like the idea behind this photo, and I totally get the idea, but there's a lot of OOF foreground here, and there's a lot of jittery OOF background as well, and the visual payoff is a small fruit. Overall, the mass of OOF elements is large, but the ostensible subject is so small that it does not fully become a good image; perhaps if the focused subject werer larger, or more prominent, this composiional approach would pay off better.

This is actually a compositional strategy, and one that can, and will work, so I would definitely keep this way of shooting in mind for the next time.