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StareDecisis — The Hooks of Life
Published: 2005-11-03 18:31:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 1179; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 104
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My conceptual vision for Fish and how they are treated.Related content
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well first off the photo is awesome, second i like to fish but i do know how it feels cause ive hooked my self to many times to remember! lol
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poor fishies!#@ I love my fishies in my tank and could never eat such a beautiful creature. But thank you for the input and Im sure hooking yourself does hurt lol
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Beautifully shot, I was quickly browsing through the massive pile-up of dev submissions and this one caught my eye the most. Clearly your objective is proven a success
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thank you very much. Im glad you like it.
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Great shot, gotta love these kinds of photos with the plain white background. Makes the focus on the object so much stronger and simpler
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thank you. I really try hard to get that white space without overdoing the subject matter, its hard and I am still practicing.
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cool shot, definately gives me inspiration to try out some shots at home, just need some photo paper now and some ideas
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Nice message. Cool shot as well. I never knew a fish hook could look so sexy...
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thank you, I didnt either
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...except in life, the hooks don't necessarily come out. They just swell up and hurt.
You're pretty brilliant with lighting. Maybe because you think your not
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sometimes hooks dont come out, they are everlasting, but also sometimes the person who hooked you repeatedly fishes for fun and takes the hook out afterwards to see you swim off (happily) miserable.
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very good concept(/me prefers conceptual photography)...nothing much to critique other than the focus which has been said earlier...
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lol...just a matter of personal choice...i would prefer the whole image to be in focus...to give a really sharp look
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I dont see whats really wrong with the focus though!
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like everyone else said, very nice concept. i really like the crisp details on the hook itself and as you might know, i'm a sucker for white space so good job man.
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thanx, thats very nice of you 
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well to be honnest, i can see your focus point/zone, which is mainly the bottom half, which i think is just perfect because that's where the message is thus where emphasis needs to be made.
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good, because that is where I wanted the focus
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background colour is good, even though the highlights are a bit to big in this one. The concept is great.
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the lighting on the left side of your actual hook is a bit too high... what I meant was reduce the highlights in PS... from what I'm trying to say and what it turns out when I type... big difference
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thats ok. Thanx for the tip.
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i like your use of rule of thirds.
i know it's really hard with macro (and that AWESOME depth of field... haha), but I think it would be a much stronger shot if all of the hook was as sharp as the one point... just my two cents.
the background is great too... i'm totally loving the plain white on EVERYTHING. i'm actually thinking about buying a 'studio in a box' for macro stuff. have you ever seen one?
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yeah a soft box. You can make em as well. With macro it is far too hard to get it all focused, so I mainly tryed to focus just on the one.
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i hear ya, that problem always occurs with macro.
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I am also curious as to what the background is.
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wierdly it is just 8.5x 11 gloss photo paper!
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Amazing.. must try that sometime. I'm horrible at lighting though!
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Im very horrible at lighting. So I just used some natural lighting in my kitchen near the window. I then got real close with my cam to take it. When I put it on PS I then messed with the curves and thats how I did it.
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Then that's some awesome natural lighting and PS work!
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8.5x11 glossy photo paper? Is that a good thing?
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I dont know
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well the white just needs more contrast or really good lighting, I use contrast since my lighting sux.
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lol. Well thank you
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