Parasite Light Fightby
BeefnCheezComment by JulietNN: Hi from the Critique Club,
You asked for your shot to have an in depth comment from a member of the Critique Club.
Definitely a fun shot here, you scored fairly well for a last minute entry!
I think that if you had put a little time into this this would have been on the front page. here are the reasons why. Your top lamp is very bright, either use a very low wattage bulb or have it turned off completely. You can achieve a light painting by sticking the light source straight into the lamp and leaving it there for several seconds. This would have illuminated the bulb and given you the outline of it as well. It would also not blow it out and make it such a focal point in your shot.
using your plain white light source, you could illuminate the desk top and all the outlines of the lamps. As you can see in this shot on your lamp posts they are all jagged where they have caught the light. This almost looks like over sharpening and JPEG compression, where in fact it is just the light being caught in the grooves. Using yoru white light source, illuminating that cord and the plug would have made it stand out more and the plug would not be so bright as to blend away in the shot. Moving the plug also to your left would have given it distinction.
So after doing all this with you white source, then go crazy with your blue!!!!
I do not think that there is a lot in post processing that you could have done with this shot, it is pretty good.
Like I said, very good entry for last minute!
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