The hard part was to come up with an interesting composition that would use all the required components that would interact together in at least a semblance of a story. After that, the actual setup was pretty easy in advanced editing. Used a couple of pins to fix the ducky to a tightly stretched rope, and a thin black thread attached to another needle behind the head to hold the ducky up. Then two more needles stuck in the beak and the tail as support for the beans and tomatoes. For lighting I used three LED flashlights - one red on the right facing the camera and two white on the left facing the ducky. The thread and barely visible heads of bottom pins were erased in post-processing.
...I still cannot believe I played in this silly challenge, without even an excuse of helping my DPL team :). But in the end it was a lot of fun, and hey, I'll take the ribbon anytime! Thank you for the votes and comments!
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Awesome job on the balancing of the duck. Im guessing you used toothpicks on the vegetables and propped something behind the duck to keep it all in place.
Great balance! No, really - love how the subjects are balanced in the shot:-) The string divides the composition at a diagonal with the tightrope ducky on the top half and the spotlight in the bottom half. I get the strong sense of the ducky being a circus performer in the big top- well done in putting all the elements together. Love the creative way you included the vegetables in the shot - for tightrope walkers do balance objects as one thing in their act. Nicely done!
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