Keys Release Me
… Let Me Go.
Er… a bunch of keys.
Well this isn’t going to win any prizes is it? But an interesting experiment….
This is for the Macro Mondays group’s theme Look Up.
The way I interpreted the theme was that you needed to take an image of something you could only see from underneath. Most things I reckoned you could simply turn upside down and photograph from above, so they didn’t count.
And I didn't want to do anything organic because I thought that space would be well-filled by others.
What was left? Hmmm…
One possibility was things that orient themselves according to gravity, and so from underneath would present a particular arrangement or shape that you could only see from down there - like the bottom of a water-filled balloon for example, or a water droplet.
… Or a bunch of keys that hang in a particular arrangement depending on gravity.
So here we have it. A bunch of keys from underneath. It would take some effort and a lot of glue to get them lined up like this any other way.
Talk about overthink!!! I do make it hard for myself sometimes.
Most of the rest about this escapade is wrong, a case of wouldn’t start from here… ever again :) (That’s called learning I suppose :) ).
Some while later I was lying under a bunch of keys suspended from a clear plastic ruler (no the keys, not me [sighs]), pointing the camera upwards handheld, brightly lit sideways from the window in my study room at home.
And in walked my wife…
She smiled - “Have you had another relapse, Dear?” (Well, she didn’t actually say it out loud but I knew what she was thinking…)
So this is a focus stack of nineteen shots handheld (I'm not kidding) in very contrasty light. Just don’t, OK? Not ever….
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image with its wonderful focus-stacking artefacts, noise and lack of contrast because of the push-processing - all totally intentional of course [cough] :) Happy Macro Mondays!
Keys Release Me
… Let Me Go.
Er… a bunch of keys.
Well this isn’t going to win any prizes is it? But an interesting experiment….
This is for the Macro Mondays group’s theme Look Up.
The way I interpreted the theme was that you needed to take an image of something you could only see from underneath. Most things I reckoned you could simply turn upside down and photograph from above, so they didn’t count.
And I didn't want to do anything organic because I thought that space would be well-filled by others.
What was left? Hmmm…
One possibility was things that orient themselves according to gravity, and so from underneath would present a particular arrangement or shape that you could only see from down there - like the bottom of a water-filled balloon for example, or a water droplet.
… Or a bunch of keys that hang in a particular arrangement depending on gravity.
So here we have it. A bunch of keys from underneath. It would take some effort and a lot of glue to get them lined up like this any other way.
Talk about overthink!!! I do make it hard for myself sometimes.
Most of the rest about this escapade is wrong, a case of wouldn’t start from here… ever again :) (That’s called learning I suppose :) ).
Some while later I was lying under a bunch of keys suspended from a clear plastic ruler (no the keys, not me [sighs]), pointing the camera upwards handheld, brightly lit sideways from the window in my study room at home.
And in walked my wife…
She smiled - “Have you had another relapse, Dear?” (Well, she didn’t actually say it out loud but I knew what she was thinking…)
So this is a focus stack of nineteen shots handheld (I'm not kidding) in very contrasty light. Just don’t, OK? Not ever….
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image with its wonderful focus-stacking artefacts, noise and lack of contrast because of the push-processing - all totally intentional of course [cough] :) Happy Macro Mondays!