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    She sells sea shells ...

    I don't think still life photography is really my thing, but as I really want to improve my photography I keep making myself try the sort of shots I wouldn't normally do just keep things fresh.

    This was an attempt at capturing one of my niece's "precious" shells . I had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted it to look given the limitations of the camera - a fairly high key image which focussed on the spiral, but with a shadow to give you a bit more information about the overall shape.

    I'm not sure how successful I was, I think I quite like it, but a bit of unbiased critique would be helpful. How would anyone else here approach this sort of thing?

    Thanks as always,

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    Re: She sells sea shells ...

    Kinda reminds me of Apple computers. I think the idea is good. I would add a little more contrast overall. The composition is interesting to me, but I think I would elim a little of the negative space on the left side (experiment with that) and see what you get. I like the shape of the shadow - good job with the placement of the light.

    Maybe a color added would be a good expt too.

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    Re: She sells sea shells ...

    Good picture but i think color would have helped ,and a little croping on the left ,like the shadow
    Whats the size of this shell ? And if you have it in color could we C it

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    Re: She sells sea shells ...

    Hi - thanks for aking the time to comment. In answer to your questions, the shell was about 3cm across, and was a very silvery/pearlescent colour, in fact very similar to the way it appears in b&w. I tend to prefer b&w if I don't hink colour will add anything as it makes you more aware of form and texture, so I don't think I have a colour version. Still, I can always have another go - as long as my neice can bear to part with it again for a little while!

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    Re: She sells sea shells ...

    I really like this image. It has a nice clean look to it. I actually like the negative space giving the image a very artsy look to it. Good job !
    ~Nina~

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    Re: She sells sea shells ...

    I agree with Nina, it is a lovely picture and I think that the shadow is great, did you try to take the picture from any different angles??

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    Re: She sells sea shells ...

    Thanks Nina/Herriot.

    In answer to your question, I did try it from a couple of different angles, but I ended up deleting those shots. To my mind they didn't leave enough to the imagination, and had a bit of a 'so what?' feel to them. This was the simplest composition I came up with, but it worked best for me.

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