Post Assignment Get Close

I liked this assignment because you can get a lot of creativity out of it. Excluding the fact that most people just did flowers, you can get a lot of interesting and thoughtful photos from this technique. I like how I got the machine heads (or the metal pegs that the strings attach to) on my bass. I wish I could have gotten a little more focus on the whole head of the bass instead of just the machine heads though. I liked my photo of the rose except it was a little dark even after attempting to fix through ISO and White Balance changes. I fixed it in post, but it almost looks like it was a yellow or white rose now. For the iPod I was really just walking around my house and was taking random close ups, when I took the photo of the iPod I aimed right at it, then realized it would probably look better at a much steeper angle with the window in the back because the light would contrast against the dark color of the dock it's sitting in. The result was pretty much the idea I was going for. The dust on the iPod was an added effect, I wasn't really going for it at the time but then during the time for taking the photo I realized it was a message. How even though we have perfectly good things, we almost always upgrade them for the next model leaving the technology behind because it's a bit outdated. If I were to retake this photo I would have two people in the background out of focus, one with an iPhone 5 with headphones in and one with a tablet showing the person with the headphones in something. It'd speak the message a bit better in my opinion.