Reflections

[Peach]

So, I was looking through my memory card today and I'm fairly certain I took this back in October. It's a shot of my parent's dining room light. The angle was completely accidental. I black/white'd it, then gave it a different color tone. I have a cropped version (it's cropped AND straightened) but I really like this one. I think it's the reflections on the ceiling.



I was wondering what you fabulous people think of it? And, if I were to take a picture like this again, what could be improved (aside from the ISO at 1600 LOL!)?

Original EXIF:
Shutter Speed: 10/6400 second
F Number: F/5.6
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 1600

(Yea, ISO 1600 again.. silly me!)

[spellbound]

Wow...that's interesting.

Well done!

[Sandie]

It is very interesting. I keep looking at it trying to figure out how I would change or improve it. I like the tilt, I like the texture on the ceiling (that is what my eye keeps coming back to) and I like the warm tones. What I am bother by, but don't know how to fix, are the extra space on the left and the bottom of the light fixture (it is like looking up a skirt and distracting to the cool patterns). I think the subject is one worth shooting again.

[Seaton519]

I love this picture, I can definitely see what is interesting about this. The angle is great. I'm wondering though is there a way to increase the contrast of the shadows on the ceiling? That would make the patterns more interesting. Great shot!

[Peach]

Sandie, the black space can be cropped out, and I have done that on another version (see below) but I find, for me, the picture loses something in doing that. I'm not sure I can put my finger on WHAT it loses, but it just doesn't seem the same.

Seaton, I was thinking the same and I have played around with it and this is the best I could get with the shadows in better contrast. The original is quite dark aside from the light and any major adjustments make the light blown out. It's so weird to see such a good picture of my parent's dining room light because, at any other time, I think it's a rather ugly and dated light lol!

Thank you all for the wonderful comments. Its amazing what happens accidentally sometimes.

[Sandie]

I agree that the cropped version loses something. Just holding index cards up to the screen I cropped even more and I think it might work. From the bottom go all the way up to 'ruffle' in front. Then on the left side go all the way to the very edge of the fixture. Then on the right just shave a little bit of black off. What happens is the fixture becomes an arrow pointing to the cool shadows on the ceiling. (I would do it and show you, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet )

In the non-tilted version I would just get rid of the tiny bit of chain at the top. I like the black in that version.