"Chris B" <c_b### [at] btconnectcom> wrote in message 
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> Very nice,
> I like it.
>
thanks ....

> but if you've got a spare 18 hours or so :-)

played a couple games of spider solitare .... roto-tilled the garden and 
made a run to local landfill and oh yeah .... had a nap ;-)
>
> Everything is too straight. I think you should rotate the bench by 2 
> degrees
> in y, the flasks by a few degrees (each different) in y and very slightly
> off vertical, the pipette by about 10 degrees in y, the test tube stand by
> about 30 degrees (as it would end up if it was just placed on the bench by 
> a
> right handed person). The inverted test tube should be a little off centre
> and the other three should be 3 or 4 degrees off vertical (the hole in the
> stand is always a bit bigger than the tube).

hey you wouldn't be makin fun of me being one of those neat freaks who likes 
things just so would ya .... hey seriously I DO get that comment alot about 
some of my other work ..... old habits die hard.

> I think almost any sort of subtle texture on the walls and the ground
> outside would make a really big difference.

the walls have .... normal {agate 0.0125 scale 0.5}
and the ringstand has .... normal {agate 0.1 scale 0.025}

maybe focul blur is killing that?

>
> I'd recommend moving a fraction further back from the blue flask and maybe
> turning the green flask so that it ends up as the focus of the picture
> (which at the moment is an empty corner). You might also add a simple dark
> shape a fraction behind the camera position to appear in the reflections -
> maybe a cube and three cylinders to the floor to represent a camera on a
> tripod.
>
> Regards,
> Chris.
>
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