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#macromondays
When your synapses get fried by thinking about the Christmas presents... Or about which of quite many photos to pick for "Wrapping". I knew I wanted to photograph paper "bubble" wrap (which does neither consist of bubbles, nor is as soft as bubble wrap, because it's a rather stiff, sturdy piece of "honeycombed" cardboard which had been used in a parcel as protection, and which I've kept for use in a photo project), but I had no idea how to make it look Christmassy.
First, I added a tiny miniature railway H0-sized snowman to the scene to add some cuteness to the image, because shouldn't an image about wrapping materials, especially around Christmas, look nice and pleasing? It should, but it didn't work the way I had imagined the little scene. The snowman images looked boring, so I decided to go for a more abstract approach and photographed the honeycomb cardboard from different angles. The results looked interesting, but anything but pleasing – which brings in the "fried synapses", because in the end I didn't know which image to choose, so it was more of a spontaneous pick: a focus-stacked image of a single cardboard honeycomb taken from the front. At least I wanted to add some Christmassy colours to the image (or let's say: I tried to), so I illuminated the scene with red light from the left (filter: red transparent chocolate box lid) and green light from the right (filter: green bottle).
P.S. I used plastic bubble wrap as background, which you can't see, of course, because it's too blurry. I just thought I'd mention it anyways ;)
Happy Macro Mondays, Everyone, and Happy Wrapping :)
Wrapstract
#macromondays
When your synapses get fried by thinking about the Christmas presents... Or about which of quite many photos to pick for "Wrapping". I knew I wanted to photograph paper "bubble" wrap (which does neither consist of bubbles, nor is as soft as bubble wrap, because it's a rather stiff, sturdy piece of "honeycombed" cardboard which had been used in a parcel as protection, and which I've kept for use in a photo project), but I had no idea how to make it look Christmassy.
First, I added a tiny miniature railway H0-sized snowman to the scene to add some cuteness to the image, because shouldn't an image about wrapping materials, especially around Christmas, look nice and pleasing? It should, but it didn't work the way I had imagined the little scene. The snowman images looked boring, so I decided to go for a more abstract approach and photographed the honeycomb cardboard from different angles. The results looked interesting, but anything but pleasing – which brings in the "fried synapses", because in the end I didn't know which image to choose, so it was more of a spontaneous pick: a focus-stacked image of a single cardboard honeycomb taken from the front. At least I wanted to add some Christmassy colours to the image (or let's say: I tried to), so I illuminated the scene with red light from the left (filter: red transparent chocolate box lid) and green light from the right (filter: green bottle).
P.S. I used plastic bubble wrap as background, which you can't see, of course, because it's too blurry. I just thought I'd mention it anyways ;)
Happy Macro Mondays, Everyone, and Happy Wrapping :)