Image 322

Day 322 of 365

"Image 322"

 

I was playing the mandolin this evening, and..............oh, that's not exactly true. Actually, I was using a mandoline while preparing dinner. If you don't have a madoline, go on the internet and buy one now!!! Not only are the good ones rather expensive, but they ALSO are extremely sharp, and you are likely to cut yourself just taking it out of the box. You can get one now at Williams Sonoma that used to be $313, and now it is going for a cool $249.95!! Reasons enough? Calm down. So, I was preparing dinner, I wanted matchstick potatoes.....but it gave me ruffle....things. I decided to make lemonade out of potatoes, and saved a slice for today's posting. I shot two different images, and went with the first. I have a new, sexy black piece of Plexiglass, and it seemed appropriate for my abstract potato portrait. Our key light is a strip bank at camera-left, and it is feathered towards the camera in order to prevent the light from leaking on to the white background. Why did I use a white seamless background for this image? Well, I'm still working on another job that uses a white seamless, and I was too lazy to swap it out for a black one. Fortunately for me, assuming you don't throw light on to an object, it will appear......................black, that's right!!! My second light is a snooted speedlight, and it is directly above our spud stud. It delivers the glow. I had one piece of my macro extension tube on my macro lens, and focused on the near edge of the tuber. Thanks for popping in!! As-salanumʿalaykum!!

 

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