Taken in my dorm room using white poster board as the background. Tried on several pairs of jeans until I found a pair that worked well in this shoot, and posed my calculator (TI-89). Unfortunately I did not have a second person to take the picture so I needed to use a mirror to make sure I was standing in the right place, click the remote, and guess where I should be. Around 30 or so shots later, I had one that felt right.
In Photoshop, I used the following in about this order:
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At last - one with imagination. I had a bellyful of pencils and apples. Great commercial potential - the only problem is the slight burn-out bottom right and it would be nice to not see the shadow of the left forearm.
When I was selecting pictures for publication I would have this on the possible/probable pile
Engineering is neither trendy nor chic. I should know, I am an engineer. As for the photo, I think a sharper focus on the calculator would have been better.
This is a well taken and composed photograph. I would have preferred not to have to have seen more of the colour on the right hand side, as I find the light in the bottom right hand corner distracting.
When I was a school we were not allowed to use calculators, so for me it was log tables, and tedious re-iterations
if the background on the left side was completely white i consider to give higher score. And right bottom side over exposed..! But composition and the idea is fine.
Ha! I just got done explaining how high key lighting didn't work for the last photo and here I see a nice example of where it does work! High key is great for giving a modern,high tech, trendy look and you've used it pretty appropriately here. It could be toned down a bit---I'd like to see a little more detail in the skin tone and the denim but this is a great effort.
Trendy in what sense I wonder. Looks like a 80's video :)
It's different and you have centainly worked on the idea. I still don't quite get it though. I have been looking at it and asking myself what this image really represents to me. As I mentioned before, 80's video was the first thing that popped into my mind and I have failed to really gather anything else from it. Maybe I am a bit detached from these sorta of thing.
Anyway, I like it for reasons I can't explain.
I like the bright high-key lighting for this shot and think it would be even better if it were more uniformly applied throughout. This is a really nice take on this challenge and a very well set up shot. Great job.
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