Diagonals in warm and cool tones

[Mike Buckley]

I made this photo using an old baking sheet as the background. While I had it out, I decided to make several photos of it as the subject. I came up with two keepers and the one shown below is my favorite.

Setup
The background is black foam core with the color changed to a deep blue during post-processing. A small continuous-light lamp is on the left side and another one fitted with a blue gel is on the right side. The saturation is not the least bit pumped up during post-processing; it's the same saturation I would use when making a tightly cropped portrait.

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[bje07]

Nice complementary colors and nice result.
You shot at f/32 6 s, why not to try at f/5.6 or 8 to get closer to the sweet spot as you are on tripod (I guess: 6 s). It's not a critic, just a question as I'm always asking me this question for my shots

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you to John and Jean!

Jean: I used a 90mm macro lens quite close to the subject. The magnification ratio was about 1:3. If I had used such a relatively large aperture as you asked about, the depth of field would have been too small. Moreover, I'm not concerned about extreme sharpness when making abstract images because the lack of it can often add to the abstract characteristic of the image or at the least not detract from it.