still life & Weightlessness

Clever idea very well performed!

I love the tension and suspense in this image, as well as its simplicity

Vlad, it is simple in form and breathtaking picture!

EGGSELENT that is what I have to say nice job.

Wall worthy. Lots of thought put into this one.

both objects seem to hover over the earth, the egg a bit in front of the glas. discreet charme of black. great composition!

Thanks all for stopping by and commenting.

 

Robert, you have an excellent eye! Actually, you pronounced what I feel, BOTH are weightless. Well said, I really appreciate it.

good looking

First of all, I like your idea. It might have been easier to shot the other way and reverse the shot, but if you say it fits the neck, then it fits the neck, and it's probably not more difficult. What I like is that the black is real black, first. Too many similar shots have some texture or such visible in the black area, and that's not very clean. Your black is a better black, basically. 2nd commendable result is that you have a very nice relection at the extreme top in the glace, and nice rim lighting on the glas. But here comes a small flaw... The reflections of your light sources by the sides shoul;d go all the way down to the edge of the glass. That's by the book and the book makes sense, BUT... Having shot similarly shaped pewter items, I know why you end up like this... It's because the bottom (the table etc) is basically reflecting on the glass at the bottom. I had a real headache with this rounded pewter vase - perhaps I can find the shot one of these days - exactly for the same reason, and I ended up removing the "table", and placing the vase on a vertically placed cylinder. That way, there was no horizontal black table to reflect on the vase. You should basically have done that here, because that's the only way to do it - well, besides PS of course...:-)

Other small nits would be 1) that very tiny highlight at the very top, which is a bit glary but pretty acceptable; 2) the fact that one side is brighter than the other one (a bit more problematic). 3) The light on the egg.

A little comment about the light on the egg. Darker at the bottom and bright at the top... Mmmmm... Given the bright stripes by the sides of the glass, I must say I don't quite understand the light on the egg. I would say: it seems fairly impossible. Did you perhaps burn the egg somehow in its bottom half or such...? Anyway, I don't get that part, so it looks a bit like "pasted", but I actually find this mystery quite interesting and attractive. Yet, the light on the egg could be slightly more attractive - absolutely speaking. But I have no idea how... Makes me almost want to try...:-)

Overall good job and very creative. Perhaps not yet as perfect as such an image can be, but pretty much on the right track. One thing I find really great is the circle at the bottom by the way... I'd like to hear you on the lighting set-up this time... Cheers.

Marc, thanks a lot for such nice and detailed (as usual) analysis. Extremely useful for me.

 

About tiny highlight at the top, maybe it's acceptable, but since some time it's bothering me. Together with different brightness of the two sides are things to consider in future.

 

Very interesting idea about cylinder base instead of table, will try. I selectively brightened bottom area of the image as much as possible to get the reflections continious all the way down and at the same time to get that area uniform with the other background. I got quite nice result relatively to what was before,however, contrast was too high and I didn't like to sacrifice the black background you like. However, it seems to me, that I subconciousnessly left this to get both objects 'flying', because it works for the title. It was noticed by Robert in his post above

 

As for light on the egg it was real and arranged surprisingly for me too. The only photoshopping was selective contrast decrease for better balancing light on the egg to make sure the texture not gone at the top and also still visible at the bottom of the egg. However, it didn't affect these strips, which existed from the very beginning.

 

As I wrote above, the lighting set-up was just regular house light, three celling white incandescense bulbs covered with white shade.

 

Thanks, Marc, for your suggestions, many of them are good things to consider.

i think you should rename it "stuck"

jk very well done.

Nice sense of humor!

What to say more than said already. I enjoyed a lot your Fine Art folder and I am waiting for your next one

Congratulations

There's not much to comment on here, IMHO. Great looking picture, but..kinda blah after that...

exelent! Nice low key photo. Great lightning. Thanks for this nice photo

 

HS 7.7

excellent.

original idea - reverting the glass...

An unusual image. I think that the glass is tilted slightly to the right. Your light is very good. I think that the image would be better if the light on the egg were more horizontal and the reflections on the glass went all the way down to the base. The reflection of light in the top of the glass would also be better if the reflections were unbroken and more symetrical. I really like this idea and feel this is a strong image.