The Needle and the Damage Done (apologies to Neil Young)

[Rathbone]

Not Pulitzer Prize winning material of course, but I'm looking for a little direction. Which is working best?

Original

Black and White

And using color balance

 

[nomav6]

I love the first one

 

[LaFoto]

I like the b+w ... but here's something I can't quite make out in either version: is that needle lying in some kind of bedding or so?
And what is "the damage done"? (Maybe it is an allusion to a song title, or else why would you need to apologise to Neil Young?)

 

[TommiP]

I am liking the original the best, a grest shot. Looks like it is lying in some sort of gel or liquid.
Nice though.

 

[mentos_007]

original one

 

[Rob]

I caught you knockin'
at my cellar door
I love you, baby,
can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done.

I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.

I sing the song
because I love the man
I know that some
of you don't understand
Milk-blood
to keep from running out.

I've seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie's
like a settin' sun.

Erm, I like the colour one. I'd possibly up the saturation slightly, and maybe put a green filter on it to enhance that moody green look. Nice shot, and a good tribute to the song.

Rob

 

[hovis]

Liking all three, but I think the third has the impact stakes - floating in blood. Nice ones..

 

[Rathbone]

Thanks Rob, I knew someone would get it! lol

LaFoto, there was an old fish aquarium that was filled with rainwater, I chucked the needle in to see if it would float and it did. I like the stark imagery, but thought I'd try it out in red, exactly as hovis said I thought making it appear to be floating in blood was a more direct statement about the effects of abusing the instrument.

Thanks all.

 

[Rob]

Now you just need to persuade the butcher to sell you an aquarium's worth of real blood... :evil: or maybe that's taking things too far!!! Nice work.

 

[Rathbone]

Actually I used to be a butcher lol

 

[Rathbone]

OK, here's the proof lol...too bad I couldn't have smuggled in a tripod, maybe it wouldn't have been so blurry. Don't wanna flash a camera around the department too much, they might think I was working for Dateline NBC!