This shot will either do really well and be one of my higher ones, or it will totally crash and burn . . .Hopefully the former.
Cut a puzzle shaped piece out of a piece of foam board. Using a bamboo skewer, suspended the piece above the hole. Put a pink napkin over a flashlight shining up through the hole and took a bunch of pictures.
I've been wanting to do this shot for some time, and just haven't gotten around to doing it.
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Cleaned up some odd colored spots
Cloned out the bamboo skewer and shadow
softened the line between the flat foam and backdrop
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wasn't completely happy with it
used selection to select the top of the upperright puzzle piece. Played with curves, dodging/burning/screening, etc. until I found something that made the top piece stand out a bit more and not fade into the background quite so badly.
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Really cool approach to this challenge, I love it. The lighting in this shot is superb in my opinion (wow good lighting in a Light challenge, ha ha). I'm curious, either you have this shot taken with the piece on it's side standing on a table or something and/or it's suspended and you cloned out the strings!?!? Hope to find out. Good Job
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