This is one of several black pottery pieces that my archaeologist son brought back with him while in northern Mexico several years ago. He purchased this piece from the natives around Sonora.
The photograph was made looking straight down into the mouth of the pottery through the 50mm/1.8 lens of my Canon 10D, mounted horizontally on my 3021BPRO Bogen/Manfrotto tripod. For lighting I used Alien Bees monolights at 45 degrees to either side of the subject.
Post-processing included Photoshop auto levels, cropping, usm, and brightness/contrast tweeking. I also replaced the white background with black, before applying Neat Image to remove some noise.
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Wonderful simplicity and complexity. It would be hard to say what this was without the title. Good choice to show the light source within the composition. Everything is perfect, imo. It was a pleasure to look at this.
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