I wanted to test my new lighting toys. I bought a Canon ST-E2 wirelss flash transmitter and a 420EX flash (already had a 550EX). Lit from underneath the table, similar to my Primary Glass shot. Background is red, but I liked the black and white look better. The transmitter works great. I shut the lights off in my basement and the infrared sensor picked up the focusing perfectly in near total darkness. I shot all shots hand held at 1/60sec. No need to use a tripod ... woooo hooooo!
Processing:
- Slight rotation and crop
- Desaturation
- Levels
- I dodged a bit because it was too dark in the glasses
- I burned the table in front of the glasses a bit too so it wouldn't distract from the glasses
- 24 pixel border using Canvas Size
Sharpen
- 35% Neat Image.
Was supposed to be a test for a sihouette shot, but I ended up keeping the glass because I didn't have time to think of a proper subject to use.
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Excellent lightling, original subject for this challenge. I don't know if I like the assortment in a lineup like that -- I think I'd either use two the same and one different, or maybe put the shorter one noticably in front to add some depth and purpose to the differences.
First, I like this picture. Second .. hmm, ok, I really like this picture. I sure wish I knew why - I feel like I am missing something by not knowing. Very inventive aproach to the challenge.
YOu had a nice idea here but, the horizontal plane is off in a way that is not sitting right with me visually. Just a slight rotation to the left would have easily cureed this. Nevertheless, it's a nice silhouette shot and, that's what we are here for :-)
It is a nice still life but I don’t believe this is really a silhouette. True we do see the outline of the glasses but we all so see depth in them as well.
A good shot, but if you see top left and top right, there is a certain amount of banding, meaning that you have either compressed the picture too much, or done something odd in editing. Good lighting though.
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