Functional Glass Art

Hi everyone!

please critique!

The idea was to create a play between the background lamp and the glass. The two sort of flow with each other and the boundaries of each get blurred for lengths along the vertical edges of the glass.

An iphone was used but I took advantage of focal length to achieve some compression. Shot around 2.4-2.6x range which i find is the sweet spot for portrait work, without sacrificing too much quality.

Let me add this preface, "on my laptop" that I am using right now, its a hard image to view. It seems to be lacking critical hard lines, sharpness, that I would expect. Like the idea a lot. And am hoping its just me and my laptop that are the issue.

What is the line going through the bottom circle? And did the lighting really go from warm on the bottom to cool on the top? Perhaps as a B/W conversion?

Ah, it might be a little soft on a large monitor, this was meant for viewing on a mobile device.

The line is part of the lamp shade, and because the light behind the shade is situated toward the top of the image, it does begin to darken on the way down.

I could probably remove/minimize the line in post.

I was going for this stained glass look, i wanted it to appear like something you might see in a dimly lit church set against a stained glass window.

This is just a rough crop. i adjusted the black point until you couldnt distinguish the lamp from pure black, to achieve a low key look

hiketheplanet wrote in post #18690234
. . . this was meant for viewing on a mobile device . . .

That makes sense.

To my eyes the image works well viewed at about two inches high.