Three Nails

[VT Mike]

Three nails that have outlived their usefulness. One still holds on to the past, trying to do what it was made for, in vain, I guess...

Tell me what you think. These were taken with my F828, the B&W was converted to greyscale with irfanview, and the contrast was bumped up a bit (by a bit, I mean a lot), and the color one had its saturation bumped up a bit.

I like the second one a lot, but something about it bothers me just a bit. The head of the nail should be the main focal point of the image, but my eye is also drawn to the area of burnt wood to the right of the nail that is in sharp focus. The image seems to have two competing focal points, and when I look at it my attention bounces back and forth between the two points. I do still like the image though, but unfortunately I'm not sure what you could do to fix this problem.

[Ultra Magnus]

Thanks to both of you for your comments..

Betty, on that first one, it cought my interest because the nails were decaying into the background. I thought it was intersting because it shared the same colors and textures with the rest of the ash and gravel around it, but they still retained their shape. Like I was trying to catch them in their decay, because soon they will just corode away in dissapear into the debris on the ground.

Mike, I see what you mean about that second shot. I think I needed to move the focal distance back a little bit further so less of the foreground was in focus, and more behind the nail was in focus. I've waited and looked at that picture many more times to understand what you meant before I replied. It's hard to see exactly what a picture is going to come out like on that tiny LCD of a digital camera, expecially in bright daylight. Next time I'll maybe try manual focusing and shooting at a couple different focus distances.

[bjtindle]

I understand what you mean about the decay! They do look like they will disappear in it soon don't they?