Catch Me!
...If You Can...
This is a detail of a small soy sauce container shaped like a fish that I took along from a nice sushi restaurant years ago because it looked/looks so cute. These "soy-sauce snappers" or "shoyu-tai" were invented in Japan in the 1950s to replace glass or ceramic bottles. Apparently, one can still buy them everywhere (at the big river, the big bay, and at other online stores) by the hundreds, but one shouldn't, of course, because they are made of plastic, and, as we all know, throw-away, single-use items made of plastic are a huge problem for the oceans and other waters. Microplastic particles have even been found in crystal clear, actually clean, and very remote lakes, so it's high time to return to glass or ceramic bottles for takeaway dishes. I will keep my cute little soy sauce fish so it won't end up anywhere where it could impose danger to the very creature it represents.
Size info: The part of the soy sauce container visible in my image is 3 cm/1,18 inches. This is a single image processed only in DXO PL6 and Lightroom. The setup was super simple, too: With modeling clay, I "glued" the fish onto a small glass jar to get the right height and placed it in front of blue glitter foam sheet (dull side up). I illuminated the little scene witn an LED photo lamp (natural light) from above, a warm-light LED lamp from the left, and a handheld flashlight (set on "spot") from the right to highlight the eye. That's it.
HMM Everyone, and have a nice autumn/spring week ahead!
Catch Me!
...If You Can...
This is a detail of a small soy sauce container shaped like a fish that I took along from a nice sushi restaurant years ago because it looked/looks so cute. These "soy-sauce snappers" or "shoyu-tai" were invented in Japan in the 1950s to replace glass or ceramic bottles. Apparently, one can still buy them everywhere (at the big river, the big bay, and at other online stores) by the hundreds, but one shouldn't, of course, because they are made of plastic, and, as we all know, throw-away, single-use items made of plastic are a huge problem for the oceans and other waters. Microplastic particles have even been found in crystal clear, actually clean, and very remote lakes, so it's high time to return to glass or ceramic bottles for takeaway dishes. I will keep my cute little soy sauce fish so it won't end up anywhere where it could impose danger to the very creature it represents.
Size info: The part of the soy sauce container visible in my image is 3 cm/1,18 inches. This is a single image processed only in DXO PL6 and Lightroom. The setup was super simple, too: With modeling clay, I "glued" the fish onto a small glass jar to get the right height and placed it in front of blue glitter foam sheet (dull side up). I illuminated the little scene witn an LED photo lamp (natural light) from above, a warm-light LED lamp from the left, and a handheld flashlight (set on "spot") from the right to highlight the eye. That's it.
HMM Everyone, and have a nice autumn/spring week ahead!