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@dulciknit - Well yes, but if you look at the other you will see it is actually more than that. There has been quite a bit of cloning to take out overlaps with the blades on either side. Only way it could be done. On the day the owner would not let me touch the blades so I could not arrange them how I wanted. So had to live with what I could see. This is the final edit. Hope it might make a good competition entry.
I like this but I'd go one step further and crop it tighter so that you have the twist, but not the end of the blade- like it's showing up in the thumbnail. But that's me- I like a really tight crop most of the time when I'm shooting something like this.
@dulciknit - Of course you are right. Titles are so difficult. For the purposes of this site I titled it like that because I was being ironic after posting so many shots on the same subject. Actually, if I was entering a competition I would find some other appropriate title.
Sorry! I was just amending what I'd written. Wish there was an option allowed us to edit without deleting.
The title seems to suggest I am being invited to look at a particular detail - maybe the part of the twist where it's tightest? In which case, although the emphasis is on that point here, I think there's perhaps too much other information. In the other versions, however, I feel the emphasis on that point is lost.
But I love that wonderful Moebius strip effect of a prop blade that I feel has been so well captured here and am very torn between that and wanting more focus on the intent that seems to be implied in the title.
Whatever your final decision, would it perhaps be an idea to darken those light lines at the edges of the boards of the... table.. where the varnish has worn away? They seem a bit distracting. What do you think?
@dulciknit - on the point about the edges, I had though of that. But I rather like the distressed look of the wood below. It is a nice contrast/counterpoint to the shiny power of the high varnish on the piece. Yes, it is a slight distraction, but I have darkened the shot from the original anyway to bring out the reds in the wood. Too much messing around the the colours would look false. Again, a difficult point and one of personal preference I think. We could get 100 different opinions from 100 people!
@dulciknit - Yes, there is nothing "correct" in this business. We are all beholders of beauty in our own right. No one holds the licence on aesthetics. And, we all see different things in different aspects of the shot. The elements are perhaps a part of the whole, but perhaps the subject in their own right. This is particularly true of the abstract. Something I am doing a lot of thinking about at the moment.
Wonderful workmanship on show. Love the sheen and lines in the wood.
The title seems to suggest I am being invited to look at a particular detail - maybe the part of the twist where it's tightest? In which case, although the emphasis is on that point here, I think there's perhaps too much other information. In the other versions, however, I feel the emphasis on that point is lost.
But I love that wonderful Moebius strip effect of a prop blade that I feel has been so well captured here and am very torn between that and wanting more focus on the intent that seems to be implied in the title.
Whatever your final decision, would it perhaps be an idea to darken those light lines at the edges of the boards of the... table.. where the varnish has worn away? They seem a bit distracting. What do you think?