Yabbies!

Another great weekend at the farm with some good results. Amongst other great easter activities such as family egg hunts and chicken coup building, coonacking for this monster was good fun! 

The photo here was pretty simple really. Just one handheld flash taken on the kitchen bench. I then stretched the image a little bit and cropped out the bench-top. Although I would have preferred to have the entire scene in the image, it is sometimes a good idea not shy away from an almost-complete image and go with a heavily cropped version. In my opinion, it works better for this image.

There are a number of lighting and textural improvements that could be made here. If anything, however, a simple compositional improvement that could be made is to rotate the yabby so it faces towards the wine glasses. This would clearly need to be done before pushing the shutter.

LESSON: Having fun is all part of good photography, but think and plan prior to photographing your subject. In most scenarios, the best improvements are done BEFORE getting to the computer.