I got the idea for this photo very quickly. At first, I thought of interpreting extremely literary the challenge description, by "turning garbage into art" and re-creating a famous painting or sculpture using wastes. But after giving it some more thinking, an original creation sounded a bit more interesting.
While the idea was mine, a huge part of the work was done by my wife. She had a day off, and spent it entirely in the basements of our house, designing the horse, building the wooden skeleton, searching for adequate parts and gluing them together. I would have never reached such result by myself. Then in the evening, we brought it to the studio upstairs, and created the pile of junk from where the horse emerges.
I did the shooting session the next day, after having adjusted the lighting and framing:
- A main softbox from the upper/right
- A fill-light softbox from the lower/right
- Another fill-light softbox from the front/left + silver reflector
- A snooted backlight on a black backdrop
Thank you all for the great comments and votes. They are very much appreciated!
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Place: 1 out of 102 Avg (all users): 7.4326 Avg (commenters): 8.5600 Avg (participants): 7.1754 Avg (non-participants): 7.5537 Views since voting: 5928 Views during voting: 392 Votes: 178 Comments: 58 Favorites: 13 (view)
sometimes i think your photos become more about what you create than how you shoot it......i dunno if thats good or bad, just an observation
That's no news, I claim from day #1 that all I care about is the result. If what I want requires a particular setup that can't be found, I just create it: sounds logical to me.
Looking at this for a longer time, I like it even more. Beautiful curves and there is some illusion of self-similarity made by seemingly infinite, almost fractal parts, which is so amazing. You should listen to Mariuca, this needs a place outside :).
Of course, it was photographed perfectly too :). Congrats on the blue!
Only Gyaban can get a blue ribbon from bunch of garbage... I wonder if I can request a little pieces of your brain implanted to mine... I totally out of imagination, must be the lack of oxygen or something... I just can't explain it :)
Excellent team work! Love the story behind this creation! Lovely. Congrats on the ribbon. Just be sure you share it with your wife. What great inspiration you both can have when handed some trash =)
The team of Christophe and wife prevail again with brilliant creativity and execution! This piece of art now needs to be displayed proudly so all can see and admire. Looking closely at all the components is like exploring an old general store. You never know what you will see next. The hooves, and spoon ears are just the perfect effect. Congrats to you and your wife!
This is just very impressive. Images with this level of skill involved have been something I've aspired to achieve since getting started with photography.
Gorgeous work of art, Christophe! And huge congrats to your lovely wife too, you have her to thank for her knowledge of equine anatomy to put together such an amazing piece. Huge congrats!
Now the problem is how to save this little jewel. I suggest keeping it outdoors and letting it be " petrified" by the elements. Great elegance. The title is too recherchee.
I would imagine a different one such as E=MC2
Good work.
Love this image, glad it ended up scoring well for you! Keep up the very creative work. And like I said before this belongs in an art museum so tell your lovely wife congrats as well.
Congratulations as always. If its not too smelly I hope you keep the sculpture and put it in your house somewhere! Its superb!
It's great that your wife's efforts were rewarded with a blue!
This is AMAZING - both the idea, the execution of producing the horse (congrats to your wife) as well as the photograph itself - and yet another "1" :-( ... clearly someone hmmm ... doesn't like horses???
That is freakin' awesome. This probably took a Helluva long time to set up! Nice lighting, a nice mix of colours and the most creative use of garbage in the challenge as far as I'm concerned. I hope you ribbon.
I'm not voting this challenge but I had to comment - I'm pretty sure this is Christophe and just wanted to say this is amazing! So well done on all levels!...just Wow!
looks like a Christoph creation particularly like the vacuum cleaner brushed for hooves, and the low energy bulbs and is that a chesnut pan on its back? lovely gradient on the backdrop, can i have the old wheel i want to make a dome rig for painting with light domes :) hehe. a horses head above the rest ive seen nice idea and a lot of work. 9
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