Stephen Levitas
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Party Favors
My wife likes to prepare traditional party favors for special occasions. These would be wrapped with tulle, tied with a ribbon, and have a small Turkish evil eye bead threaded into the bow of the ribbon. I took this shot before the wrapping.
This shot belongs to my long-time interest in shooting collections of objects, either in a jumble, or in a neat array, as in this case.
My main problem was color separation in the conversion to monochrome. Would any of you like to take a crack at it?
3 comments posted
This is an interesting composition. I kind of don't like how the bowls on the edges are cut off. Maybe shoot this with just 3 or 4 bowls placed randomly in the field of view.   Posted: 10/03/2025 16:53:48
You are quite right, that is a compositional concern. In this case, I wanted the cut-off composition because that implies that the pattern is infinite. This is also a compositional concern in hand-woven rug designs, to suggest that the central pattern goes on infinitely, and that the we are just looking through a window into a part of the pattern.   Posted: 10/04/2025 23:05:12
Comments are all fine, but I prefer the color version over the mono.   Posted: 10/09/2025 02:45:00