Colour Pencils

• darragh

  Participant

  March 27, 2008 at 11:03 am

  This is my first shot using a lighttent and studio flash lights.
  
  I used a Canon 30D with a Sigma 50-500mm lens with Kenko extension tubes.
  Aperature f/8 Shutter: 1/125s ISO : 100

  I think moving the focus point in the shoot would make it stronger, is there anything else that would help?

  Criticisms welcomed.
  Thanks

  Darragh
  stcstc

  Member

  March 27, 2008 at 5:31 pm

  i would be tempted to re-arrange the pencils so they sart at the front with the reds etc and then the pale ones then the darker ones at the back

  Oh yea sharpen then
  darragh

  Participant

  March 27, 2008 at 5:43 pm

  Steve,

  This is my shot from Saturday, I want to redo because I am not happy with the DOF is in it.
  I’ll retry it with the reds at the front, pales in the midground and darker in the background tonight.

  I reckon it would be better if all the pencils were sharpen.

  Darragh
  Deebo

  Participant

  March 27, 2008 at 9:38 pm

  I think this should be cropped to remove the dead out of focus pencils at the top.
  I am thinking that shooting this in a portrait format with the pencils and the DOF working vertical would work better
  Dee
  Noely F

  Participant

  March 31, 2008 at 4:55 pm

  A different point of view perhaps?
  Brian_C

  Participant

  April 1, 2008 at 10:11 pm

  None of the pencils are critically sharp, even the sharpest is still blurred, shame!

  Re: rearraging the colours, look at a colour wheel and see which colours contrast each other, they’ll be colours 180 degrees from each other, like reds and greens…. try arranging contrasting colours beside each other and another arranging the colours as per the wheel.

  Nice idea.