Mirror, Mirror...
...In the tile, who was the fairest for a while?
This was a fun theme, but difficult. I had all kinds of ideas, like continuing Veloci's and Tyranno's potato crisp love story (but I almost instantly knew that this time I couldn't squeeze all the ingredients into the 7-inch frame), cute needle-felted animals, photographing something right from below (but how would I conceal the clamp?)...
The most fun was the crystal bead necklace. Actually, I only wanted to move it aside but when I held it up, the long-missed sun shone right through the window, onto the necklace, and its sparkle created beautiful light reflections on the table and an interesting shadow pattern. Since the sun is still moving so fast at this time of the year, I fired away, ignoring the fact that the necklace was quite dusty (mistake No. 1) and I also didn't bother about a proper, nice-looking background (photo table chaos: mistake No. 2). Well, but even if the photos weren't usable for the aforementioned mistakes, it still gave me an interesting photo idea, and I will give it another try as soon as the sun stays for a little longer.
So in the end, it was my last attempt that made it. I put a small silver ring with a clear, faceted glass stone (one of my candidates for last week's ring theme) on bouillon/zig-zag jewellery wire, just so that the stone would hover over the glossy black tile but not touch the surface, and tilted the camera so I could also include the distorted reflection.
Why bouillon wire and not a regular silver necklace? Because the wire's zig-zag shape makes for a nice bokeh. Zig-zag wire (please see the image in the first comment) is very elastic because it's made of one piece of flat wire wound up into its typical zig-zag shape. As a result, my setup was super wobbly, and whenever I accidentally hit the tile, or, worse, the clamp from which the wire and ring were dangling, it took ages before the movement and jiggling stopped. The image is a single shot, illuminated from the left, right, and slightly from above to brighten the reflection.
Size info: The ring's diameter is 1,8 cm/0,70 inches.
HMM, Everyone!
Mirror, Mirror...
...In the tile, who was the fairest for a while?
This was a fun theme, but difficult. I had all kinds of ideas, like continuing Veloci's and Tyranno's potato crisp love story (but I almost instantly knew that this time I couldn't squeeze all the ingredients into the 7-inch frame), cute needle-felted animals, photographing something right from below (but how would I conceal the clamp?)...
The most fun was the crystal bead necklace. Actually, I only wanted to move it aside but when I held it up, the long-missed sun shone right through the window, onto the necklace, and its sparkle created beautiful light reflections on the table and an interesting shadow pattern. Since the sun is still moving so fast at this time of the year, I fired away, ignoring the fact that the necklace was quite dusty (mistake No. 1) and I also didn't bother about a proper, nice-looking background (photo table chaos: mistake No. 2). Well, but even if the photos weren't usable for the aforementioned mistakes, it still gave me an interesting photo idea, and I will give it another try as soon as the sun stays for a little longer.
So in the end, it was my last attempt that made it. I put a small silver ring with a clear, faceted glass stone (one of my candidates for last week's ring theme) on bouillon/zig-zag jewellery wire, just so that the stone would hover over the glossy black tile but not touch the surface, and tilted the camera so I could also include the distorted reflection.
Why bouillon wire and not a regular silver necklace? Because the wire's zig-zag shape makes for a nice bokeh. Zig-zag wire (please see the image in the first comment) is very elastic because it's made of one piece of flat wire wound up into its typical zig-zag shape. As a result, my setup was super wobbly, and whenever I accidentally hit the tile, or, worse, the clamp from which the wire and ring were dangling, it took ages before the movement and jiggling stopped. The image is a single shot, illuminated from the left, right, and slightly from above to brighten the reflection.
Size info: The ring's diameter is 1,8 cm/0,70 inches.
HMM, Everyone!