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Hello everybody,
I generally like to take macro photos. Whether outdoors or indoors is relatively unimportant to me. It's the small, inconspicuous things in life that allow a completely different perspective with the right light.
That's how I took this spool of thread with a needle. I was interested in the fact that the thread is slightly frayed and you can see through the needle hole in the right position. I illuminated it with a small LED lamp. It was important to me that the background was dark and that the object was optimally illuminated.
I am still delighted with the photo, but it only received scores of more than 5% from the curators.
I liked the subject, but apparently not enough. I can live with that because it's just a snapshot. However, I'm interested to see how I could change this photo - maybe even improve it.
Do you have any ideas for me?
LG Ute
Hi Ute welcome back. - Changes to this image would be a little limited but this is what I came up with. Small crop off the top and bottom. Added a little more space at each side. Some dodge tool work to lighten the pink colours. Last Topaz AI sharpen for that Pro look. Thank you for sharing.
Hi Ute,
my suggestions:
vertical perspective +5
Extend borders
Cut image square
Sharpen image
Greetings
Udo
(edits with PSE)
Hello, Ute
Welcome to our forum and thank you for uploading your image. I will also, give some recommendations about your image based on my experience in still life, photography and micro photography. While agreeing with the adjustments, my friend Daniel recommended, I will also give some others insights. First of all, I think the gradient in the background does not fit the image very much. I think it causes a loss in depth of field and it also looks not natural. I think this is an image that you can take once more if my suggestion turns out to be agreeable to you. I do not mean your photo is not well taken, but I think it would not make much difference by editing this image. Your idea needs to be presented to cause an impact on the people that see lots of impactful macros on 1x nowadays. I think the crop after image made, you lose some powers to grow up to be verse attention. If I were you, I would either have given the full body of the thread or I would have zoomed in much closer. Another alternative would have been to set a different foreground and background with a different angle to it. I will explain what I mean. When looking at the image as it is, I have the feeling that the scene is not complete. Am I looking at the needle hole where the thread goes through against the feeding background or am I looking at some tools that are at home or that are used by a tailor? So I think there are two different sets here. If I wanted to present the scene of this object, I would have used my macro lens to photograph it, but I would have used the object complete with some foreground added . If my objective was to photograph the thread going through the needle hole, and to present a macro image, I would have only zoomed in the needle, and I would only have only the part where the needle is burried in the roll with some in the foreground. The second one would have required a differently staged scene.
I will try to demonstrate with some drawing. I hope to be helpful. I wish you good light. Cicek...
Hello, Ute
Welcome to our forum and thank you for uploading your image. I will also, give some recommendations about your image based on my experience in still life, photography and micro photography. While agreeing with the adjustments, my friend Daniel recommended, I will also give some others insights. First of all, I think the gradient in the background does not fit the image very much. I think it causes a loss in depth of field and it also looks not natural. I think this is an image that you can take once more if my suggestion turns out to be agreeable to you. I do not mean your photo is not well taken, but I think it would not make much difference by editing this image. Your idea needs to be presented to cause an impact on the people that see lots of impactful macros on 1x nowadays. I think the crop after image made, you lose some powers to grow up to be verse attention. If I were you, I would either have given the full body of the thread or I would have zoomed in much closer. Another alternative would have been to set a different foreground and background with a different angle to it. I will explain what I mean. When looking at the image as it is, I have the feeling that the scene is not complete. Am I looking at the needle hole where the thread goes through against the feeding background or am I looking at some tools that are at home or that are used by a tailor? So I think there are two different sets here. If I wanted to present the scene of this object, I would have used my macro lens to photograph it, but I would have used the object complete with some foreground added . If my objective was to photograph the thread going through the needle hole, and to present a macro image, I would have only zoomed in the needle, and I would only have only the part where the needle is burried in the roll with some in the foreground. The second one would have required a differently staged scene.
I will try to demonstrate with some drawing. I hope to be helpful. I wish you good light. Cicek...
Hello Ute,
I just want to add a small suggestion to the excellent advice given from Cicek. I agree 100 % with what she said. Perhaps you could have put some fabric in the background rather than a plain background so that it tells the story better. The fabric would be blurred to put the focus on the spool, thread and needle.
Regards,
Lucie s.c.
