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The Trevor Carpenter Photo Challenge, 2022 Week 11, TOMATOES
A snowy day in Colorado is a good time to play around with this week's challenge! I used a black background, set the ketchup bottle on a sheet of black posterboard, and arranged a facial tissue going down the neck of the bottle and up out of the bottle. Using natural window/room light, which gave me the highlight on the tomato that I wanted. I photographed that setup. Then I removed the tissue and took a second photo, with the tomato sitting on top of the bottle. In Photoshop, I painted the tissue in red colors, usesd auto-align to layer the two photos and then erased parts of the bottom of the tomato so the lines of the tissue showed through to indicate the tomato being squished into the bottle. I did some brush work on the background and added some tomato "splatter"! Voila—fresh tomato ketchup!
Refill
The Trevor Carpenter Photo Challenge, 2022 Week 11, TOMATOES
A snowy day in Colorado is a good time to play around with this week's challenge! I used a black background, set the ketchup bottle on a sheet of black posterboard, and arranged a facial tissue going down the neck of the bottle and up out of the bottle. Using natural window/room light, which gave me the highlight on the tomato that I wanted. I photographed that setup. Then I removed the tissue and took a second photo, with the tomato sitting on top of the bottle. In Photoshop, I painted the tissue in red colors, usesd auto-align to layer the two photos and then erased parts of the bottom of the tomato so the lines of the tissue showed through to indicate the tomato being squished into the bottle. I did some brush work on the background and added some tomato "splatter"! Voila—fresh tomato ketchup!