Challenge:Body Parts (Classic Editing) Camera:Canon PowerShot G2 Location: Grand Falls, NB in my studio: the kitchen table Date: Dec 22, 2002 Aperture: F7.1 ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/60 Galleries:Still Life, Macro Date Uploaded: Dec 22, 2002
Yup, you guessed it. I took a picture of an arm (my wife's), made some copies and cut them out. I was inspired by some shots in the illusion challenge. The rest is basic: cut a flower, use a black cloth for a background. Used a tripod with flash. Activated with my remote control. Actually it wasn't that easy ... I had to really be precise while cutting out the arms and hands. You need to make sure you remove every little bit of white around the edges, otherwise it sticks out like a sore thumb. Took approximately 80 shots to get it right. Had to place a Kleenex on my flash because the white was coming out too harsh. The liquid in the "vase" is orange juice ... the picture was lacking colour and it's the best I could do on such short notice. It's too bad I couldn't find a brighter coloured flower. Enough said, any questions? E-mail me. :)
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This was a fun take. I concentrated too much time on the flower. It was getting late (Sunday night) and I didn't have time to reshoot. Heck, I got over 6 so I'm smiling ;)
So much work, fantasy and visual impact on the flower and so exactly the contrairy on the rest of the image (background, staging/framing, jug) too bad !
This is very, very cool. I think perhaps the composition is a little bit awkward. A tighter crop would work better, maybe. But I love the surrealism of this photo!
Nice effect. I can't tell exactly how it's done, which is good.
The orange could do to be brighter, and I would prefer a portrait crop but there's obviously a lot of work gone into this so well done, I do like it.
cut out hand pics? looks reallly neat. The orange juice bottle (is that orange juice?) looks a bit too grainy it's quality seems lower than that of the flower, also seems out of place I find myself wondering why a flower is growing in orange juice instead of wondering why hands are growing out of a flower. Cute concept, but the shot could have been touched up just a bit.
I have no idea how this was done but I think it about the most unique photo I have ever seen. I will be among my favorites. This is absolutely georgeous. I can say enough good about it and nothing bad. It would be a 10 from me and should place 1st.
Interesting shot. Would like to know how you did this. Might have liked it better if there was just a stem in the vase, rather than what looks like orange juice (even though I would guess you were expanding on your "hand picked" theme.
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