I'm now so glad that I decided to go with this idea and not the other one I had :o) I'm shocked that I placed so high, the best I've ever done by a long long way (my previous best was last week's macro challenge, a 6.201)... and thanks for all the great comments - nearly as many on a photo as we used to get back in the early days of DPC!
First, I'm sure you'd all like to see what the original looked like:
My (basic) setup is clear in the original - it was lit by merely the room spotlights (hence the double shadows), since my desklamp is too bright for a large scene. I cropped it down the way I did after doing several wider crops, and I decided that the main focus was too much on the rest of the loaf and not on the PCB, hence I made the tighter crop. The bread was sliced with a real breadknife, the slices wedged into position, and the PCB was (carefully) shoved into a half-cut slice.
The lighting seems harsh because I had to adjust the levels such that the white was clean, and not the murk that it originally was. The background is white and not blue (as suggested) because I have nothing to create a blue background with - really!
The title was always going to be a toss-up between what it is and 'The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread' (thanks PTL, I did realise it!), but I decided to go for the shorter one in the end... plus someone else did the 'Best Thing Since...' title :o)
To get the 'null' background, what I did was have a white-sh background originally, then through adjusting the levels made the highlights much brighter, which creates the clean background. However, care is needed to not blow out the details on the subject itself.
As for /why/ I chose this subject, well, I just really loved this challenge, and it gave me so many ideas that I could pick and choose the one I liked, and my sense of humour has always been one of the driving forces behind my photos... and I just so happened to have a new loaf (thanks to my parents) and an ancient ISA soundcard lying around. Oh yeah, the irony of this photo is that the soundcard isnt cutting edge any more ;o)
If there are any more questions about this, please PM me.
Well done Manic. You've officially placed higher than me in a challenge, so I can't feel like I've got one up on you anymore. I never did feel that way anyway. Very nice pic, you deserve it for all the hard work you put into this and the other challenges. - Inspzil
interesting concept, and I like how there is motion implied. wondering if this should be flipped horizontally.. can't decide. would have to see it both ways... anyway.. that's probably subjective anyhow. good work.
Except for the stark background, this is a GREAT photo! And a wonderful idea! Very creative! (My thought was Ants and Electrons, but I skipped this week) 9 Swash (with a background, it was a 10!)
Bad title. Should have been something like....Computers are the greatest thing since sliced bread". Technically that is about all I can find wrong with this photo. I love the humore first and almost as important as the rest. But the color, crop job, light, subject, composition are right on! One question....may I have a slice of that bread? I give you an 8 for it. PTL Looked at it again and again and believe it is a 10. Great job.
please submit to the how'd they do that section how you take these photos with 'no' background. its a great shot and i'd like to learn how to do something like this.
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