Righty...what have we got here.
001, I like the close crop and how the 60 is on the upper right third. I had a quick edit and dropped the exposure and bumped the blacks to give it more contrast and it seemed to improve.
002, saw this a while ago and thought I'd commented. It's a good photograph. Nice DOF, nice detail and great lighting on the top. For me, though, I'm not keen on the central placement. Another idea would be to try and get lower and photograph upwards showing more of the underside...??
003, scones...who doesn't like a good scone..home made?? for some reason in the arts things look better when presented in odd numbers...don't know why. The focus is an issue, that is the front is OOF. Looks very orange as well.
004, 'Over indulgence'...never...
Lighting looks fine..Just the blue in the upper right that draws my attention away from the coffeeeeee or chocolate...well composed.
005, looks familiar...
nice and symetrical, but central.
006, eeekkk, looks like a scene from Alien. Nice colours and symetrical. Now in this one the central placement works well. The top white thingy looks a tad over exposed on my laptop. The black section at the bottom..difficult to get rid off possibly without cropping part of the flower.
007, eye contact...nice....but (I sound like a broken record!) central again. Looks well exposed.
008, yeyyy, off centre...
now if you compare a central placement with this one....which do you prefer. I've never used extention tubes. I've used a £5 reversing ring and damn..it was hard to get focus. It is soft, but I do like the shadow and bokeh on the lower right.
009, B&W works well and nice narrative to the photograph.
Now, these are just my thoughts....I'm sure you'll improve.
I tell you, it isn't going to be easy. I managed to do to 100 in my Costa 365 (it's on here somewhere...
) and I found it
very hard to maintain. I don't think choosing such a narrow project matter helped. I was thinking about the project
all the time.
I did buy a nice moleskin notebook and jotted down any and all ideas. I had about 40 Costa ideas in there when I concluded the project but couldn't physically finish the 365.
I'm sure you'll get there. You have a nice range of ideas so far. Think macro, colours, contrast, texture, motion, lines, curves, text, single/multiple objects, balance, curves, simple/complex, clear/ambiguous, movement, etc...
If I could recommend a book it would by this one...
linky. It's a cracking read. I'll try and remember to bring it along
this weekend...
Cheers.