Love it Bob!!
Great story and a compelling image.
I like the darker exposure too, and good use of lighting to pick out some crucial cutlery detail, and to define the shape of the can with those nice, specular spots top and bottom.
Nice work Bob.
Thanks
@GarethB! Comments such as yours here encourage me to keep going!!
very nice works well and great execution.
Thanks Peter. Appreciated.
Like Gareth, I love it too and it goes great in mono and you just got away with the lighting in it too.
Thanks Dave. The lighting was just a reading lamp pointing straight at the can. My only issue was the vertical highlight down the middle of the can which was difficult to avoid as I wanted the highlights on the metal bits.
Maybe a tad to dark for me and not sure about the highlights on the tin but I do like the composition and the fact you can just see the hands and nothing of the body, but I do like the image and idea.
Cheers Allan. Yes, I darkened the image using Photoscape. Something called "Brillo de Gamma" (my version is in Spanish) which I guess is Gamma Brightness. Anyways, my idea was to create the effect of the hands coming out of blackness, but I suppose it darkened everything.
Dark and moody beans - that's a new one - and I like it
Thanks Dave. Moody beans - like that description!! It could be a caption for the shot. My daughter who is studying in San Diego came out with another caption:
Beans, beans, the magical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot
The more you toot, the better you feel
So let's have beans for every meal!!
I had never heard toot used like that before!! Made in the USA I guess!!
Great idea, works well.
For me the hands / can are a bit dark.
I may have had a go at lightening them up with an exposure or levels adjustment layer, and then masking the spoon and fork to retain their darker exposure.
Dunno. Worth a try maybe?
Thanks Tim. I think my level of editing is nowhere near what you are suggesting
, but I understand what you mean!!
That’s a very original idea for the theme, I like the choice of b&w it works well.
Thanks Susie. Original. That's what I was aiming for. Of course, there's nothing wrong with posting something that's quite similar to someone else's, but I want to avoid this if I can. I suppose the secret is to get in quick! My first idea was an open can of beans with some spilling out but that idea, as I said, was 'taken' early on.