Backlit using a regular incadescent clamp light, mounted to the underside of my kitchen table. White poster board taped to wall and also used under the vessel. Decided to do something in silouette because I felt it lent itself well to duotone. I liked the soft shadow on the poster board. At first I wasn't plesed with the relection on the underside of the masher but now I thinks it adds to the shot. I'm sure someone will mark me down for originality, given the Kitchen Art challenge (which I didn't enter). Post processing: rotated 1 degree ccw to fix horizon, cropped, auto-levelled, and greyscaled.
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O - I admit I'm one of the ones who marked down for originality in this challenge. I think if you could've done something a little different with the lighting on this one, It would've helped. And its not at all because I think the lighting is bad on this one, just maybe not had it the same across the whole picture. I picture this in my head with the bright light in the middle and substantially darker on both sides, like putting some kind of "v" directly behind the vase so that the light on both sides of it was diverted, so it wasn't quite so intense. Maybe if you could've made it where it looked like the light was coming OUT of the vase it would've done more for me. Just thoughts though. Its really a solid picture as is. Bob
Bob,
These are the kinds of comments that make a photographer strive for something better.
O - I admit I'm one of the ones who marked down for originality in this challenge. I think if you could've done something a little different with the lighting on this one, It would've helped. And its not at all because I think the lighting is bad on this one, just maybe not had it the same across the whole picture. I picture this in my head with the bright light in the middle and substantially darker on both sides, like putting some kind of "v" directly behind the vase so that the light on both sides of it was diverted, so it wasn't quite so intense. Maybe if you could've made it where it looked like the light was coming OUT of the vase it would've done more for me. Just thoughts though. Its really a solid picture as is. Bob
Bueno! I think this is the only silhoutte picture I have seen; a marvelous choice of setup. Utensils don't terribly interest me, but in this case subject matter seems secondary to meeting the challenge and the good use of lighting.
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