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Red bottle
Started January 7, 2009 @ 7:03am by Györffy (Peter)
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Györffy (Peter)
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Wes
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| January 7, 2009 @ 8:59am | Love the red/blue combination, froghe, and from the looks of that window, it does look cold. I also like the image of something outside the window. These are definitely the months to look around the house for something photographic to capture. That is a very interesting and different looking bottle.
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JohnC
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| January 7, 2009 @ 12:49pm | On the other hand, I find myself distracted by what's behind the window. I could see the bottle moved over a bit to the left and a much wider aperture (around 2.8) to have less detail in the outside world. Another option might be to back up and use a longer lens. Depth of field would be the same if the bottle is the same size in the image, but less of the background would show due to the narrower field of view. It should still give enough detail in the window for the setting.
As Wes said, the colors are very good. I feel that the bottle is a little overexposed, but I don't know the actual color. So that might just be me.
John
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| Fire and Ice? | January 7, 2009 @ 1:59pm | The colors and ice crystals are pretty exciting stuff but I find your composition is very static so I think the design could be helped with an off-center arrangement or maybe some Photoshop work like a slight radial blur on the background. Thanks for sharing your work!
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April
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| January 7, 2009 @ 7:10pm | I do enjoy the juxtaposition of warm against cool (cold!) and inside vs. outside. In that context, what I can barely see in the background doesn't bother me, because it suggests what lies beyond the frosty window barrier if I venture out -- and adds a third dimension. Those are the elements I would try to push a bit further in post processing.
I also like the texture of the bottle echoed by the texture of the frost.
Though a big fan of classic simplicity, in this case I agree that the centered composition is static. It's difficult to suggest another crop without seeing a full-frame version... Is there more room available left, right or top without introducing competing elements? Or perhaps this is full frame?
If so, playing with an unbalanced square crop looks kind of interesting... 
April
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Bug
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| January 7, 2009 @ 10:06pm | Hi Peter,
I like your photograph for several reasons. I like the colour combination. I find the bottle’s shape interesting. I didn’t really notice the background until it was pointed out, then I wanted to know what was out there. I’m not sure if I’d change it but it can’t hurt to try John’s suggestions.
Is that frost around the bottom of the bottle?
Charlene
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MCampbell
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| January 8, 2009 @ 10:29am | I have been looking at this image for a couple of days now. The first impression that stuck with me is I really enjoy it. I like the simplicity of color with just two colors dominating.
I also love the frost. I am also wondering though about the crop. The background behind adds mystery for me and I like that. I might like to see a lot more of the window with the bottle smaller in proportion or on the other extreme perhaps a tighter view even - almost macro to bring out the frost and just have one side of the bottle curving red against the ice.
Just my thoughts after restraining myself from instantly commenting. I like your idea of experimenting with a different crop. I cannot say what you had to work with on a wider angle but I can see that a tighter view could introduce some serious play with form and color -red smooth, blue crystals etc.
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Flo
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| January 8, 2009 @ 10:40am | Hi, Peter - I too have been looking at your image for a while, several times, in fact. I like the colors and the textures and even the fact that I can see some indications of objects outside the window in the background.
But the composition, with the bottle smack dab in the center just doesn't work for me. I hope you can go back to reshoot and try out some of the suggestions posted by the others.
The suggestion I've favoring at the moment is to back off for a wider, taller view of the scene - to include more of the window.
Or perhaps get low down - below the sill and bottle - and use a shallow depth of field (a more open f/stop) to put the focus on just a part of the bottom and allow the rest of the scene to fade into blurred support for the in-focus part.
Or what would it look like if you stood over the bottle and shot down on it? Or angling in from the side?
I think if you can go back and rework this scene that you'll come up with several more pleasing variations, composition-wise.
Flo
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Györffy (Peter)
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| January 10, 2009 @ 2:41pm | Thanks a lot for your thoughts. Very interesting. I've attached two more images.
The first one is from yesterday. I took it so you can see what the place looks like. This is our glass room/patio (whatever that's called in eng.) It's amazing to see what a little cold and good light can do a scene...
The second image is a square crop and I like this one a lot better. However it's now cropped so much that I can't probably not make any big prints out of it.
The image I first posted was more or less the full frame. I've just pulled down very little on the top to get rid of the section where the two pieces of glass overlap.
By the way, the texture on the bottle is not frost. That's just the way the bottle look.
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Flo
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| January 11, 2009 @ 7:14am | Thanks for the additional images, Peter. How about moving the bottle to the right and work with its position so that the vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines come into play. You may end up with something very interesting - those straight lines playing contrast against the curves of the bottle.
Flo
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