I’m not that great at expert editing. But I didn’t want to do just a ‘straight’ egg. So I spent quite awhile looking around the Internet for something more interesting. I ran across a few images of Chinese tea eggs that looked interesting and I found instructions to make them. It took two shopping trips to get the ingredients and about an hour of prep and cooking.
In the end, they turned out just the way they were supposed to. I then took about 5 days of shooting in a makeshift home studio … working in the shooting between bouts at work and bouts of allergies.
In the end, I produced what I intended. Now it’s up to you dear voters to reward my efforts with a ribbon … or whatever else strikes your fancy.
I was tempted to title this Ripley’s Egg, the title is a nod to the Alien movies. The egg reminded me a bit of the monster eggs in the movies. But in the end I chose Martian Egg because the lines look like the ‘canals’ of Mars.
Now I'm off to eat my props!
Post Processing • Convert Two Images from RAW (PSCS5 Camera RAW)
• Composite (PSCS5 - 1 flipped Horizontal)
• Dodge & Burn (PSCS5 Overlay Layer)
• Remove Dust & Spots (PSCS5 Clone Layer)
• Blur Composite Seams (PSCS5 Gaussian Blur – Masked)
• Filter (OnOne Perfect Effects)
• Dodge & Burn (PSCS5 Overlay Layer)
• Crop (PSC5)
• Resize (OnOne Perfect Resize)
• Sharpen (PSCS5 USM)
• Save for Web (PSCS5)
It reminds me the Easter eggs my mother used to cook when I was young: she wasn't using tea, but onion skins in boiling water, with similar results. Ok, now I'm hungry ;) Congratulations on your ribbon, I am glad your hard work paid off!
Martian Egg
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