Red Wine

[Nina Xmania]

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A nice Red wine ..which i took while setting with my self thinking what is that thing that would look simple but classy ..so i took this shot

Exif data

Camera Sony DSC-W230
Exposure 0.167 sec (1/6)
Aperture f/2.8
Focal Length 5.4 mm
ISO Speed 400
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire
X-Resolution 1
Y-Resolution 1
Orientation Horizontal (normal)
Software ACD Systems Digital Imaging
Date and Time (Modified) 2011:07:24 19:03:51
YCbCr Positioning Centered
Exposure Program Program AE
Date and Time (Original) 2011:07:24 06:32:12
Date and Time (Digitized) 2011:07:24 06:32:12
Compressed Bits Per Pixel 4
Max Aperture Value 2.8
Metering Mode Multi-segment
Light Source Unknown
Sub Sec Time 837
Color Space sRGB
Custom Rendered Normal
Exposure Mode Auto
White Balance Auto
Scene Capture Type Standard
Contrast Normal
Saturation Normal
Sharpness Normal
Sony Date Time
BBs=
Macro Off
Exposure Mode Auto
Quality Normal
Anti- Blur On (Shooting)
Compression JPEG (old-style)

[windrider86]

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[Nina Xmania]

okay thanx

[Doug Sundseth]

Subject:

It looks like your glass has a few flecks of dust and a finger print or two. Normally these wouldn't be noticed, but in a very simple still life, any flaw is magnified. Similarly, there are missing grapes in the bunch of grapes you chose. This could work if there were a few loose grapes on the table in front of the bunch, but here it doesn't look intentional.

Composition:

I think the low angle works moderately well here, but an even lower angle might work better. The stem of the glass is long enough to make the separation between grapes and wine uncomfortably long. If you were to shoot from lower, you could move the grapes visually closer to the bowl of the glass.

I'd like to see a bit more breathing space around the edges of the frame. The glass and grapes seem very cramped right now.

I think you might also benefit from a slightly richer background, but I could easily be wrong about that.

The bright white diagonal watermark you used draws quite a lot of my attention away from the subject. If you need a watermark, I'd recommend that you make it parallel one of the edges of the frame and reduce the brightness significantly.

Lighting:

It looks like you're using a softbox low camera left and a strip light for fill on the right. I say this because I can see your lights in the specular reflections on the glass. For highly specular subjects, controlling specular reflections is much of the game. For a curved-surface subject, this is especially difficult, because each side will reflect most of the arc on its side.

To work with this, you can light from higher or lower (sending the reflections into the ceiling or floor), use very large light sources (large diffusion panels are common, and use subtractive lighting in the form of black panels on either side of the reflector.

The glass isn't well separated from the background. I think you need to either provide some sort of rim light or directly light the background.

The wine looks black. To get it to look like wine, you need to fire light through it so that the color shows up at the camera. I'd start with a gridded strobe (to control spill and unwanted reflections) from high right or left behind the glass.

The farthest left sides of the grapes are noticeably hot, probably because your softbox is so close. Raising the softbox would help to even the light, as would a diffuser panel.

HTH

[Nina Xmania]

First i appreciate it so much that you gave my photo a lil of your time...

thanx alot you made me realize my mistakes but ..i think mistakes leads to perfection ,,,
imma be aware next time its just its a hobby and i dont know anything about photography Technics ...

[Nina Xmania]

Ps:

That not a real wine ...cuz for us (Muslims) its forbidden its a normal drink but i tried making it looks like a red wine...