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Love that last picture, Christina - majestic indeed.
I like the egg picture, monk, but agree with Olulabelle that it leaves the viewer a little uncertain about the emphasis. I think that’s largely a matter of focus. The depth of field is very shallow and it appears that the sharpest point is the patch of fabric between the first and second egg (specifically that rather pubic looking hair). Since you say that this picture is more about the relative integrity of the eggs rather than singling one out for particular emphasis, I think you’re right that using a much smaller aperture to bring all of them into focus would have told that story better. And because the last 3 eggs all appear to be whole, paring the arrangement down to just the nearest three (broken, cracked, whole) might have told it more succinctly.
I know what you mean about the saturation, and it’s a dilemma because on the one hand it brings out the mottling on the shells, but then also floods the image with the purple. A plainer ground might have worked better. Sitting the eggs on a plain sheet of paper would be less distracting, and make more of the shadows created by the side-lighting.
I still struggle to predict how a camera is going to react to colour. My Nikon has a tendency to over-saturate (particularly reds) and I have to dial it down afterwards. But other times it's as if there's no colour in the scene at all:
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