Cig C&C

uprising

smelltheglove

Its hard to see it all together as the imahe is so large but I would like to see the cig in focus as opposed to the lighter. maybe resize the image down so the full image can be seen on screen for more c&c

FX Meister

does nothing at all for me

Snap Happy

I think the lighter has such good detail you are actually losing the interest of the photo by having it out of focus.
I think you should try get the whole lighter in focus.

Cig could be lost or kept but does nothing for me in the photo.

Cabaal

No mood to it, too much white and cig itself should be in focus

PopeBuckfastXVI

Quite unbalanced as a composition, too much dead space in the left and bottom, which doesn't work. Selective focus is too selective and the lighting is very flat and tungsteny. As for the subject matter, it's completely meh to be honest.

The selective focus and narrow DoF would work very well on a brighter, more interesting subject with a different background.

KarmaGarda

Doesn't work for me either. I can see you were trying to use an interesting DOF to possibly achieve interestingness, but it somewhat distorts the photo. And the left and bottom (mainly left) is completely blown out which doesn't work either.

Because I don't get it, I need to ask: What were you trying to achieve out of the photo here? i.e. what is it supposed to say/mean.

PopeBuckfastXVI

One more thing, when I full screen it I still can't see the whole photo, if you keep it to 800px on the longest side it would be easier to see the whole photo, and judge it in full context, rather than scrolling.

uprising

KarmaGarda wrote: »

Because I don't get it, I need to ask: What were you trying to achieve out of the photo here? i.e. what is it supposed to say/mean.

Erm sorry no big artistic meaning behind it, was testing autofocus points and apatures at different ISO's handheld, just testing a lens, put my cig down and snapped it.
I totally agree its a meaningless eyesore, just sometimes I'm amused with the psychological photographers around the net, trying to take meaning from [EMAIL="cr@p"]cr@p[/EMAIL].
I've 20 years photo experience, I don't really post photo's online, but I've seen some long discussions about bin worthy pics portrayed as art.

KarmaGarda

uprising wrote: »

Erm sorry no big artistic meaning behind it, was testing autofocus points and apatures at different ISO's handheld, just testing a lens, put my cig down and snapped it.
I totally agree its a meaningless eyesore, just sometimes I'm amused with the psychological photographers around the net, trying to take meaning from cr@p.
I've 20 years photo experience, I don't really post photo's online, but I've seen some long discussions about bin worthy pics portrayed as art.

Fair point! I suppose it goes to prove you can't pass off any old cr@p as art either

To be brutally honest, I couldn't disagree with a word of your reply all the same.

PopeBuckfastXVI

So you just put it up and marked it C&C for the chuckle?

Thanks for the waste of time...

TelePaul

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

So you just put it up and marked it C&C for the chuckle?

Thanks for the waste of time...

What are you saying, it's AMAZING!!!!