Slinky Close Up

[arne saknussen]

Tried a different lighting direction. And a little closer.

[Adamo]

Very industrial! There seems to be a lot of noise or something on the right side? Not sure about that!

[Andra2000]

yeah.. this is so industrial. i dunno..

[Anbesol]

Looks like it could make a cool, embossed kind of texture in various geometric ways. Its relative irrelevance to any absolute perspective or angle give it a depth that's like an optical illusion, but rather helps it to be interpreted in many different ways. As an image looking at this, forgetting its a slinky, I consider a flat chunk of metal, carved out in various shapes that could all, though different and various geometric patterns, produce the exact same image. The dof gives this a sort of wacky feeling that obscures a practical understanding of the subject. The concept of perspective distortion, in how you balanced the compressed angle and dof, you can tell that you have been photographing these things for a damned long time.

Glad to see you're still entertained with your slinkys, you could probably get a patent on slinky photography, and get paid royalties and what not.

[arne saknussen]

Adamo....yep, I think I see the noise too, now that you mention it. It was set at ISO 400. I'll try 100 next time.

Andra....not sure what you mean. Do you not like industrial? I didn't think industrial was a negative, you're "i dunno" implies that.

Charlie, thanks for giving a detailed explanation of your thoughts, Coming from you, they mean a lot to me.

[SalamanderStrikes]

I'm not sure if I can give much use in the photo critique, but - yes - a lower ISO would reduce the noise .. Which has already been said & you've already, like, replied to this.

I do love the absolute closeness preserved in a way which wouldn't quite be visible to the naked eye. With the naked eye, both eyes somewhat fighting to create just the one image from the two views, but the photo preserves and presents the information which would be lost when focused so closely to an object like a slinky.

In particular, with the focus, I love how the scratches and scrapes on the metals surface is succeessfully picked up in your photo!

Looking at it again, it reminds me a little of the images which were created for the original 1963 Doctor Who series for the title sequence. I think they played around with smoke and things.

[armando_m]

You created a very nice abstract

compared to the very colorful shots you have shared before I think this is not up to the level of excitement that the other images can create

love how the lines crisscross the frame