Still Life Soft Lighting

Candles:
This image isn't as attractive to me as other pictures because it's not too special. Still it is a picture of soft lighting, because throughout all of the image, it has about the same lighting, and even thought the shadow is very clear, it is only because of the concentration of the light. It is very thick, so even if the light would have been small, the shadow would still have turned out. Something i do really like about this picture however is that the first candle is very much in focus, and as the candles go farther back, the less focused they are, and this gives the image a special effect. The test strip also on this image is a little different, because it is darker than the actual image. This is because the test strip is at apreture 2.8, filter 0, and 13 seconds. Whereas the final print has the same seconds except the final print is at 9 seconds instead. Becoming lighter and seeing the details more clearly.