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Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 1:45:25 AM

swirlygirl

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I whittled it from about 500 photos to about 9 I think it is. I have a migraine and just can't even see straight at this point. Could you look at these photo ref shots I have taken for the still life challenge and pick your top 5 in the order that you like them. Don't base it on the photography because I have the objects to look at and if something is blurry doesn't matter - just composition and color and contrast balance.

number 1

number 2

number 3

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 1:50:57 AM

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Oops I did not mean to hit okay to post

Number 4

number 5

number 6

number 7

number 8

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 4:32:32 AM

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i vote no stars

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 7:11:39 AM

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#1 Grabbed my eye immeditely
#5

The rest of them all blur together in my head after that

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 7:29:58 AM

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I like #4, but I think I might like #1 better if the view was pulled back just a bit.

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 8:13:40 AM

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I agree about number one...if pulled back a bit. I also liked number 7 & 5......and number 2....I sorta like it without the stars...seems more stately or something...

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 9:19:43 AM

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2, then 4, I prefer no stars too.

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 9:22:05 AM

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i like no 6... I like the blue glass jar on the left the best in general.. don't know why.. but i do.. If one of the stars was peaking behind on the other side of the blue glass jar that would make it be my fave

yikes Heide.. I see everyone has diff opinions.. I know how you feel I do this with my still life's too and want to pull my hair out sometimes making that decision.

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 9:23:40 AM

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to me the stars represent you and your work..

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 9:49:45 AM

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I love the Stars!!

Here are my top 3:

#8
#5
#3

If I had to pick one without the stars it would be:

#4

I can't wait to see this completed.

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 9:53:56 AM

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number one, then number seven

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 9:55:37 AM

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I like #4 but I think you are better off with an odd number of items. Maybe add something that isn't round.

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 11:20:11 AM

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quote:

Maybe add something that isn't round.

umm.. like a star?

.. that's one of the reason I like the stars in there..

I like number 1 also but pulling one of the stars down a bit

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 11:20:42 AM

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Thanks a lot you guys

I think you all just about split those up nicely

Well, as I read your answers and think of your own work and personality I am understanding your choices. I was hoping there would be 2 or 3 clear favorites to make it easy for me. I was thinking I might paint a few of these so I might do one without the stars and a couple with.

I know what you mean about it needs just a little something more in the one without stars robin. I dug through boxes and even went out shopping to find more items but most of my little stuff is still packed up

I photographed those on black velvet (so friggen expensive) and with a 1 1/3 yard of velvet to get a foreground and background of the velvet I had about 2 feet of foreground. Believe it or not that scene used up all two feet of the foreground with the little silver ball at the very edge of the table top. I wanted a bigger piece but it cost 38 dollars for that size. I love the velvet though because it gives such a solid background and really doesn't reflect light much - just sucks it up.

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 11:25:57 AM

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looked again ..still like number 6 b/c the brightness of the blue and the brightness in the yellow ball are more split up and not grouped together.. but spread around more

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 1:22:19 PM

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I just went and looked at my canvas that I have on hand so that will decide which one I start with. I have two 11x14s and the rest are 24x36. I don't want to do a still life that big because I do not like to paint still lifes larger than life and the 11x14 are a bit small for the more busy images I think so I will start today with one without stars and go out and get some canvas to do a few of the ones with stars.

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 2:06:42 PM

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quote:

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Maybe add something that isn't round.

umm.. like a star?.. that's one of the reason I like the stars in there..

Yup, same here. The star shape offsets all that roundness.
I like #1 because there are not too many stars and they are in the right places. I think so, anyway.

Not sure about the pink ball though, or gold. Any other colors of those?

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 4:09:46 PM

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It is actually a pale purple ball but I was planning on making a deep shade of purple like what is in my moon and star painting - it is the same ball. I am intending on making the big candlestick holder and the yellow ball more of the same color so it will be a palette of rust color, purple, gold, silver and blue or purple, silver, blue and gold or rust color, silver, blue and gold.

I am feeling kind of excited about this because it has been a long time since I have done a still life and my skills and technique has improved and changed a bit. So I am curious how that will translate to this genre

The more I think about that the funnier it is to me Muriel - how many colors of balls do people usually have?

I have a fantastic crystal ball Jeanne gave me but it is packed up somewhere so safe I can't find it in my boxes in the storage unit. So I am thinking it is way in the back of the unit which I have no energy to get to at this time.

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 4:21:52 PM

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Oh, OK> It's a nice set-up. Very "you". Good luck with it.

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RE: Please help me decide which photo ref to use - 3/5/2009 11:40:32 PM

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I prefer #4 if you switched ball to gold near the blue and the silver next to gold candlestick.

Edited to add: I deliberately didn't read the posts so I wouldn't influenced, but if you change ball to purple that would work too. Gook luck on this, the subjects are lovely.

I do hope your migraine goes away and doesn't come back! Feel better.

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