My wife's Mont Blanc pen. I was initially going to enter something like this for the product challenge but she forgot to bring it home from work, so I entered my Aquaracer instead, which turned out quite well after all :)
When the Black On Black came up I thought it was a great opportunity to do the pen shot after all.
This was a complete nightmare of a shot to do as it turns out, especially in basic! I really wanted to incorporate the lid of the pen too as it has the Mont Blanc logo, but after taking what must have been a couple of hundred shots this was the only one that I felt looked any way respectable.
Don't expect too much from this shot. I would be pleased if it breaks 6.
Post Challenge:
Just got back into the office to find this on the front page! I never thought for a second that a score which was sitting just below 6.5 this morning was going to get a ribbon!!
Thanks all for the votes and comments!
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Among the winners, it seems that you are the only one who did not convert the image into greyscale. Most of them did. You deserve to bag the blue. IMHO
Hearty congratulations. 10 from me.
At f/14 you were pushing the boundaries of that superb lens as it starts going soft around there. Only solution, take a more flat perspective, pen parallel or almost parallel to your "focal plane". (P82, D700 manual), but you already know that...You can still get the angled composition you wanted but more DOF throughout. Nit pick. Great image.
This is just a classy shot with great lighting, color and sharpness. You did great with the diffuse lighting along the barrel of the pen. Only possible critique which is just a personal preference is perhaps shoot with a smaller aperture to broaden the depth of field and show the entire pen in focus. But I just want to see another shot to choose which is better. It doesn't really affect the vote here.
Pretty image, but I am NOT going to use a fountain pen! Had to a few times in elementary school and I was always leaving nasty looking blots of ink on the page. I knew I would never grow up to be a calligrapher ;-)
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