Doomsday Breakfast
Or: Bread roll nightmares (come true...)
I concluded my photographic year 2024 on a humorous note with my dinosaur MM image (please see the second comment), and as coincidence would have it, today's breakfast allowed me to start my new photography year 2025 with some fun as well: Breakfast pareidolia :) We always (pre-)slice our Sunday bread rolls in the bread cutter to avoid breakfast table crumble mess and the second slice had a cute little "shocked" face. So as a warm-up for my MM shooting for tomorrow's "Keychain" theme, I decided to photograph it.
While I don't eat sweet things like marmalade, jam, honey, or hazelnut/chocolate spread for breakfast, my savoury options simply didn't look as photogenic as the homemade strawberry jam we always buy at our favourite vegetable stall at the weekly market. So butter and jam it was for the photo.
I did some dodging and burning on the "eyes" and "mouth" to highlight "the bread roll's fear of the bread spread", brightened the background, a simple wooden cutting board, and did some extra sliding in Analog Efex (frame only) and Color Efex. There were two darker spots on the cutting board which I used as pupils for the holes aka eyes.
As for the poor bread roll slice: Its inevitable fate of being eaten for breakfast has been postponed until tomorrow ;)
Wishing you a Happy, healthy, and peaceful 2025, dear Flickr friends! HSS Everyone!
Doomsday Breakfast
Or: Bread roll nightmares (come true...)
I concluded my photographic year 2024 on a humorous note with my dinosaur MM image (please see the second comment), and as coincidence would have it, today's breakfast allowed me to start my new photography year 2025 with some fun as well: Breakfast pareidolia :) We always (pre-)slice our Sunday bread rolls in the bread cutter to avoid breakfast table crumble mess and the second slice had a cute little "shocked" face. So as a warm-up for my MM shooting for tomorrow's "Keychain" theme, I decided to photograph it.
While I don't eat sweet things like marmalade, jam, honey, or hazelnut/chocolate spread for breakfast, my savoury options simply didn't look as photogenic as the homemade strawberry jam we always buy at our favourite vegetable stall at the weekly market. So butter and jam it was for the photo.
I did some dodging and burning on the "eyes" and "mouth" to highlight "the bread roll's fear of the bread spread", brightened the background, a simple wooden cutting board, and did some extra sliding in Analog Efex (frame only) and Color Efex. There were two darker spots on the cutting board which I used as pupils for the holes aka eyes.
As for the poor bread roll slice: Its inevitable fate of being eaten for breakfast has been postponed until tomorrow ;)
Wishing you a Happy, healthy, and peaceful 2025, dear Flickr friends! HSS Everyone!