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by FranziskaLang

Comment by spiderman:
my top photo of the week - 10

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Comment by Jak:
Excellent negative space! 7 Jak

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Comment by Karin:
like it a lot, I have some of these myself!

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Comment by technogma:
good photo just not what I expected. Detail is fine. Lighting is good.

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Comment by jenarom:
This is a nice picture. Good colors. Great framing. Good luck.

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Comment by jsabbarton:
Great idea, good artistic merit, superb composition and a really good shotâ€Â¦(8)

three
by FranziskaLang

Comment by FranziskaLang:
thank you all for your comments, as usual. the three pencils are lying on the upper shelf of my desk at home, sticking over the side of the shelf, hence those shadows. i liked the way the yellow pencil fades in with the background, but realize from the comments that people either love it or hate it. oh well. i have taken a couple of shots with a white background and having the pencils enter diagonally into the shot, but it just didn't work as well for me.

it was pretty dark, so i hand-held a desklamp, that was all the light i could muster at that time of night. hence also the reflection on the pencil tip (which i noticed only after uploading the pictures).

lastly, i included the yellow pencil (rather than going just with primary colors) because i still had this yellow pencil thing in my head from the initial challenge description, as well as because it did blend so much with the background ... i wanted it that way! ;)

three
by FranziskaLang

Comment by stephan:
Very good use of the narrow DOF to focus on the pencils. The shadows below the pencils are a bit distrating because it's not visible if the belong to the pencils or something else.
-stephan

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Comment by sjgleah:
very well done... love the colors and the apparent suspension of the pencils... i'm so-so on the orange bkgd 6 sjgleah

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Comment by MrsKro:
Very nice dof...I like the orange color but it tends to make the colors of the pencils flat somehow.