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Been a dreadful day with high winds all day even when the sun came out for a time , then down came the rain very heavy . What could I do ? Hmm , every day I look at the photo of my beautiful mother .... so .... I thought I'd do a still life . So hard to get it right . What do you think ?
| Camera: | Canon EOS 400D |
| Lens: | canon EFS 17-55 f 2.8 IS @ 17mm |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Title: | A pleasant pause |
| Username: | 
Mavis |
| Uploaded: | 11 Jul 2012 - 7:36 PM |
| Tags: | General, My Mother, Pearls, Still life, Wine |
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| Votes: | 26 |
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Hello Mavis.
I believe your picture has lots of room for improvement. Almost everyone who would like to give you advice would be glad to have the metadata of your picture, please remember to tick the boxes which let the site have access to this information and it appears in the Exif part as it is called here.
I would attempt to shoot it with a plain background. If this one is from a window I would have pulled the curtain behind it to eliminate the eyes wondering about and focus rather on the objects you want to present.
I would also try to find some colour similarities to compliment the objects shot, a silver frame, a white pearl necklace, a crystal glass, a black bottle of wine and a wooden table is a combination that instead of unifying, disintegrates your picture. My best suggestion since they can not hover on the air, is to place them on a silver(ish) tray or if you would date, make use of that curtain as a seemless background and base, by spreading it on the table surface.
you can also change your height of shooting. sit down, keep it level, allow for the height of the bottle to be clearly seen and appreciated. Your camera's flash reflected harsly on the glass of the bottle. You could use a diffuser, a piece of napkin held with an elastic would suffice I think. Better, you could get rid of the flash altogether and try to use a wide aperture, to allow more light to be ecorded in your camera's sensor. Or you could have increased the sensitivity, the ISO information and the aperture would have appeared in the Exif data.
You may had drunk of the bottle content until you take this pic, ( I can't guarantee when the sun will come out) but I think you would be much more pleased.
Best regards
Thank you for the good comments on my critique Taggart and Fentiger, if you feel it was indeed helpful remember to nominate it as Constructive Critique. I may not be very as well as I want to be able to take good pictures pictures but I am happy to make others to improve theirs. Knowledge should be shared for the benefit of everyone, I think.
Well, it looks good just as it is to me, Mavis, despite various suggestions. Everything's sharp where it needs to be, it's correctly exposed and the colour balance is fine - as long as it pleases you, that's the main thing 
A fine tribute to your mum 
After much toggling though, I can't see any difference between V1 & V2!
Trev
Thanks Trev . Glad you like it . Was sat down while I took it No you wont find any differance between the two they are the same Doh. I found if I ever took the second one off the first one went as well and all your lovely comments xx
A lovely piece of work with nice depth of colour Mavis, and what a gorgeous looking Woman your Mother was.
John X
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