Cruets 2

[Manfred M]

More cruets with glass hemispheres. This time I filled the vinegar compartments with a mix of food colouring and water to see how that would turn out; from left to right I used green, yellow and blue colours.

[billtils]

Very mixed feelings on this one Manfred. It's a clear testament to your imagination and technical skills but, for my taste, it is too fussy and a reminder that often "less is more".

[Manfred M]

Thanks Bill - I'm really exploring the properties of these containers inside containers to figure out how to best incorporate them into images. They are fairly complex physically and optically. I suspect that in the end, I might use a single cruet in an image and support them with other glassware.

This is an earlier shot where i did not include the glass hemispheres and shot the cruets while the food colouring was being distributed through the water. I suspect I will use a much lighter touch with the colours in my next test.

[mugge]

I agree with Bill that sometimes 'less is more'
Cheers Ole

[billtils]

The complexity is still there but the edge definition on the blue side is much better (not so great on the greeen side though).

[DanK]

Technically excellent, but it doesn't really work for me.

My first question is often: where should the viewer's eye go? The second seemed a bit better in this respect because the changed lighting draws the eye to the glass in the center. however, that's fighting with the intense color bright color of the left-hand edge.