Taken on a mirror in the bathroom with a black sheet backdrop. Adjusted levels and curves - quite a bit of curve adjustment to try and get rid of the burned out highlights. Used the patch tool and healing brush in a further attempt to minimize burned highlights. Camera was handheld at 1/15 s.
This was my attempt at an abstract :-)
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don't let your score/finish affect your imagination and explorations!
one of the most important (and least expensive) pieces of equipment in my bad is a table-top tripod. under $30, and you can use it just about anywhere...
I think you knew your own problem ahead of time. "Camera was handheld at 1/15 s." This picture needs a bit more DOF so that the subject are in focus from front to back. It looks like you didn't do a bad job holding, but I'm sure even at this aperture, the pic could have been sharper on a tripod. Abstract, to me, doesn't have to be OOF. Rather it's a picture which relies on shape, pattern, or design as its own subject. The pattern the fork makes is interesting; the spoon, less so; and the knife, even less.
I wonder, and I'd have to see this, if you upped the DOF and pushed the spoon and fork closer together, what you'd come up with. You'd have an abstracted "x" and that might be visually pleasing. I'm just guessing here.
We also know the CW says "abstract doesn't do well at DPC", so maybe a 5 was good... :) I gave it a 5 myself.
I see the spoon and fork, but I don't see the knife that your title suggests. The reflections add some interest. The bright line in back (the knife maybe?) is a little distracting from the two primary subjects.
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