Light My Fire

[itsTylerRandall]

I took this snap shot today and I was wondering if it was decent. You know...how is it when it comes to composition, exposure, artistic, et cetera.



There has been absolutely no editing done to this photo (except the watermark).
Exif info:
Camera - Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure - 5
Aperture - f/36.0
Focal Length - 49 mm
ISO Speed - 100
Setting - Manual

[itsTylerRandall]

Anybody?...

[windrider86]

The biggest thing is the rim of the glass is covering up and cutting in half your main focal point. Try it from another angle

[LeeR]

Composition? Yours is simple, centered, symmetrical and common; in a word, boring. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but with a blue gazillion photographers out there shooting the same darned things every day you need to provide us with something to latch onto; a beautifully balanced (or slightly unbalanced) composition, an interesting angle or a stunning lighting effect. How about using the candle as your light source to light a small still-life? Or arrange several candles to create an interesting composition? Or shoot it from a child's point of view? Use your photography to say something. We don't need any more pretty pictures; there are already more than a billion of them on flickr and facebook. What we need are images that tells us who you are, or better still, reveal to us a bit about who we are. Sound like a tall order? Not if you can think of photography as a language that uses line, color, shapes and texture to tell its story. A good one truly is worth a thousand words... sometimes more.

[Sterling]

Agree with windrider about the rim cutting the flame in half. Also, I don't think that such a long exposure was the best choice as it has rendered the flame as a shapeless blob. Being at f/36 and ISO 100, you have lots of headroom to reduce the shutter speed to try and capture a crisp, solitary flame.

[lotteotte]

Originally Posted by LeeR

Composition? Yours is simple, centered, symmetrical and common; in a word, boring. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but with a blue gazillion photographers out there shooting the same darned things every day you need to provide us with something to latch onto; a beautifully balanced (or slightly unbalanced) composition, an interesting angle or a stunning lighting effect. How about using the candle as your light source to light a small still-life? Or arrange several candles to create an interesting composition? Or shoot it from a child's point of view? Use your photography to say something. We don't need any more pretty pictures; there are already more than a billion of them on flickr and facebook. What we need are images that tells us who you are, or better still, reveal to us a bit about who we are. Sound like a tall order? Not if you can think of photography as a language that uses line, color, shapes and texture to tell its story. A good one truly is worth a thousand words... sometimes more.

Wow - I like this approach, harsh as it might sound at first. Have to print it out and tape it next to my pc screen! Thanks Lee.

[rward78]

for what it's worth, I like it.