Cutting Edge Tech
Razor blade.
I’ve always harboured serious doubts about the wisdom bringing several sharply-honed steel edges into close proximity to your jugular veins in dim light while half-asleep and sometimes without even a mirror. But there we are.
At least it explains (in case you wondered) why men sometimes arrive at work with bloody tissues stuck to their manly looks. The clotting time of human blood is about 15 minutes and you can’t hang around - you’ve just got to get moving, lol. (And don’t mention electric razors: real men and all that…)
If natural selection is as strong as they suggest then one wonders why, after billions of years of evolution, all men aren’t bearded? Strange :)
This is a picture of a razor blade in its plastic case for this week’s Macro Mondays theme Ready for the Day. The width of the picture is around 20mm. I was trying to bring out the metal blades even under the plastic and the textures of the case. I hoped the diagonal and the arrow would strengthen the composition a bit.
Thanks for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the (bloodless) image :) HMM!
[Natural daylight augmented with LED torch for blade highlights. Blue paper background. Tripod; remote release, VR off.
Focus stack of 5 images processed in Affinity Photo. I used a stack to get a breadth of field not possible at this magnification using F16 to limit diffraction softness.
Developed for contrast and a bit of saturation but no vibrancy. A slight increase in colour temperature to take out a green cast top left.
Touched up using inpainting to remove hairs.
Sharpened using High Pass filter/Linear Light blend and Unsharp Mask to bring out the textures in the plastic case. Played a bit with a Depth of Field filter in Photo to take some of the detail out of the edges.
Slight dark vignette to finish :)]
Cutting Edge Tech
Razor blade.
I’ve always harboured serious doubts about the wisdom bringing several sharply-honed steel edges into close proximity to your jugular veins in dim light while half-asleep and sometimes without even a mirror. But there we are.
At least it explains (in case you wondered) why men sometimes arrive at work with bloody tissues stuck to their manly looks. The clotting time of human blood is about 15 minutes and you can’t hang around - you’ve just got to get moving, lol. (And don’t mention electric razors: real men and all that…)
If natural selection is as strong as they suggest then one wonders why, after billions of years of evolution, all men aren’t bearded? Strange :)
This is a picture of a razor blade in its plastic case for this week’s Macro Mondays theme Ready for the Day. The width of the picture is around 20mm. I was trying to bring out the metal blades even under the plastic and the textures of the case. I hoped the diagonal and the arrow would strengthen the composition a bit.
Thanks for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the (bloodless) image :) HMM!
[Natural daylight augmented with LED torch for blade highlights. Blue paper background. Tripod; remote release, VR off.
Focus stack of 5 images processed in Affinity Photo. I used a stack to get a breadth of field not possible at this magnification using F16 to limit diffraction softness.
Developed for contrast and a bit of saturation but no vibrancy. A slight increase in colour temperature to take out a green cast top left.
Touched up using inpainting to remove hairs.
Sharpened using High Pass filter/Linear Light blend and Unsharp Mask to bring out the textures in the plastic case. Played a bit with a Depth of Field filter in Photo to take some of the detail out of the edges.
Slight dark vignette to finish :)]