Autumn Still Life with Harlequin Squash

Being a lover of still life I felt an urge to do an autumn still life. I bought the squash form the local supermarket and collected some fallen leaves from the park next to my house. I normally have a clear image of what I want to do in my mind but this time I did not know what I was going to end up with. The composition is pretty spontaneous but I am not sure if it works very well. It certainly is far from conventional composition rules. However, I do like the muted autumn colours and the way the textured background came out.




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  1. Davor Curić20 October 2012 at 10:14

    Jako lijepa mrtva priroda - kao i uvijek..:-)
    Mala sugestija....čini mi se da kadar "bježi" u desno - zbog odrezanne posude koja je izašla iz kadra....pozdrav, Davor.

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  2. Vesna Armstrong20 October 2012 at 16:09

    Hvala ti!
    Namjerno sam odabrala taj krop gdje se posuda samo djelomicno vidi jer sam njome htjela dodati samo sporedni detalj i boju bez prekomjernog odvlacenja paznje od bundeve koja je glavni fokus. Da sam posudu ostavila cijelom bundeva bi bila manja u okviru i paznja bi se natjecala izmedju bundeve i posude sto nisam htjela. Slazem se da je kompozicija neobicna, i iskreno, nisma sigurna da funkcionira. Vrlo rijetko "rezem" bilo koji element u svojim mrtvim prirodama. Hvala ti na iskrenoj misli i sugestiji.

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  3. Davor Curić21 October 2012 at 13:35

    Ajoj...sad se otvorila polemika...:-)
    Ma sve je OK - ja ti imam to "dizajnersko" oko - pa odmah skužim podsvjesno neravnotežu. Ne smeta odrezana posuda, samo bi bundeva trebala ići malo prema šišarki (mrc).....
    Ali nema veze - to tak samo ja vidim - super je slika!

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  4. Vesna Armstrong21 October 2012 at 14:15

    Ne smeta malo polemike. Dapace, dobro je cuti konstruktivan komentar, pogotovo od nekoga, kao ti, tko zna sto govori.

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  5. Davor Curić22 October 2012 at 03:18

    Hvala Vesna, ima ljudi koji se uvrijede....ja to u najboljoj namjeri - ipak jako cijnim tvoj rad..:-)

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  6. Vesna Armstrong22 October 2012 at 15:05

    Znam....i ja jako cijenim tvoj rad, a i tvoje misljenje.

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  7. dora24 October 2012 at 12:09

    sviđa mi se kako si postavila kadar,a i promišljeni crop koji fokus upravo daje na bundevu i šareno lišće

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  8. Vesna Armstrong26 October 2012 at 10:54

    Hvala, Jasenka!

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