Few

Few, a photo by caroline..collins on Flickr.

Baked beans on porcelain - I intially took several photos of a sprig of grapes with a 'few' grapes still attached, I had problems with lack of adequate lighting to remove shadows and it was too wet to take my object outside. Later considered the concept of the 'few' baked beans, I put them on a porcelain plate and was able to take my object outside for natural lighting, I kept the tin in the background out of focus to draw the eye of the viewer to the 'few' beans, leaving the can out of focus f5.6 1/50

Tutor feedback:
Many/few - I like the thinking around the 'few' image but have a couple of points: First I am not convinced that the beans are sharp. There could be a variety of reasons for this:
* you may have been using the lens at it's maximum aperture, stopping down a couple of stops would have improved things.
* hand holding the camera with a shutter speed of 1/50th may have introduced some very slight camera shake.
Second, I'm not conviced about the imagery here. Yes I think it's ok but I feel that a lot of other thoughts would pass through the people's minds looking at this image. I grant you that a 'few' may be one of the thoughts, but it would be accompanied by alot of others and the trick is to reduce the number of other thoughts. I think you could have conveyed 'few' better by photographing the two or three beans left in the bottom of the tin.