Tossin' and Turnin'
#MacroMondays
#BoardGamePieces
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No modeling clay involved this time. These are stacked "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" game pieces a millisecond (or so) before the tower tumbled down. "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" (Man, don't get angry!") is a German board game classic based on the Indian game Pachisi and the English game Ludo. It was developed by Josef Friedrich Schmidt in 1907/1908 and has been sold over 90 Million times since then. I wanted to skip at first, because I'm not really a board game player, and thus also don't really have any board games – except a small box of travel games bought for... a previous Macro Mondays "game" theme. Of course :) I still had no idea what to do with the fairly boring-looking game pieces, but noticed that the plastic cones were hollow – which makes them stackable. So the attempt here obviously was to capture the game pieces tower in the moment of the fall. To make the tower fall, I've used a toothpick which I've retouched with the clone-stamp later in PS. I made a few beginner's mistakes using the Oly's "Pro Capture" mode, but the picture turned out quite nicely anyways, so up it goes :) The height of the stacked game piece tower was 4,5 cm / 1,7 inches, so, together with the reflection and the negative space above the yellow cone, the frame, which I've also cropped quite considerably, should be well within the 3 inches limit.
Happy Macro Mondays, Everyone, stay safe and healthy!
Tossin' and Turnin'
#MacroMondays
#BoardGamePieces
STRG / CTRL+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEn16GyRuZA
No modeling clay involved this time. These are stacked "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" game pieces a millisecond (or so) before the tower tumbled down. "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" (Man, don't get angry!") is a German board game classic based on the Indian game Pachisi and the English game Ludo. It was developed by Josef Friedrich Schmidt in 1907/1908 and has been sold over 90 Million times since then. I wanted to skip at first, because I'm not really a board game player, and thus also don't really have any board games – except a small box of travel games bought for... a previous Macro Mondays "game" theme. Of course :) I still had no idea what to do with the fairly boring-looking game pieces, but noticed that the plastic cones were hollow – which makes them stackable. So the attempt here obviously was to capture the game pieces tower in the moment of the fall. To make the tower fall, I've used a toothpick which I've retouched with the clone-stamp later in PS. I made a few beginner's mistakes using the Oly's "Pro Capture" mode, but the picture turned out quite nicely anyways, so up it goes :) The height of the stacked game piece tower was 4,5 cm / 1,7 inches, so, together with the reflection and the negative space above the yellow cone, the frame, which I've also cropped quite considerably, should be well within the 3 inches limit.
Happy Macro Mondays, Everyone, stay safe and healthy!