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Anonymous
Better that its in focus, worse that its a) distractingly tilted, and b) not as interesting of a subject.
Proper faucet photography requires the following..
Subject in focus and properly exposed... no distracting elements (weird tilts can be distracting)
Once there, for composition, you want to emphasize whats interesting about the subject... particularly faucets. What little I find interesting is that a) they stick out of the wall, b) water emits from them, and c) they often have an interesting organic shape and texture... being made of corroded metals more often than not.
You can up the contract between textures or colors, emphasize those. A shadow can really give a sense of depth and make the composition more interesting. Some angles make you see the subject in a new way... while others simply point out that you are looking at a tilted photograph.
Imagine, for a simple exercise, all of the ways one can see a faucet. Change the colors in your minds eye, the shape, the shape of the drops falling from it, etc... you could do high contract black and white, long shadows, even shadow of the water drops on the wall.
I'm really going on about this aren't I... and on such a stupid subject...
Check this out for inspiration....
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&q=faucet&m=text
Also you can search gettyimages for a ton of ideas.
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