Cloudbust - Diamonds

[Manfred M]

Trying something with a third light with a snoot. I've introduced a a small circle of magenta gelled light behind the diamond sphere to bring a bit of a complementary colour into this set of analogous colours. Smoke as before...

[billtils]

I like this one Manfred. The only opportunity for improvement that strikes me is to bring out the diamonds a bit - that's what the composition is about according to the title but the one on the right is lost in the smoke and the other two could maybe be a bit more forceful?

[mugge]

The placements of the objects are very balanced. I often wonder if it would not be better if you 'unbalance' a scene a bit to create some tension within the composition.
Cheers Ole

[Manfred M]

Thanks for your thoughts Bill and Ole.

Let me show you what I had (SOOC) before I started working to put smoke in the scene.






The glass is quite visible everywhere and there is asymmetry as well. It is also not all that interesting...