Time and place: I like to experiment with Altered Reality and keep every picture of interesting ideas from magazine, advertisements or the internet. Sometimes these pictures provide you with a concept that develops further into something else as you start planning and experimenting. I found this particular idea on the internet. I like this image because of the clean simple lines, but mostly because it makes you look twice before you realise what you are looking at.
This photo was done in a home studio.
A plain sheet of white paper was used for the background. The lighting provided the soft grey colours and shadows. I used toy blocks under the paper to provide the height and angle of the cutlery.
Equipment and settings: I used a Nikon D5000 camera, an 18 to 200mm zoom lens and a tripod. Shutter speed was 1/200, Aperture was F32 and ISO was at 200. I used a studio light with a soft box.
Processing: I used Adobe Photoshop Elements 10. The basic processing done on this image was to crop for good composition, sharpen, saturation and contrast.
I cut off the edge of the fork by duplicating the colour of the paper using the “Clone” function.
I then duplicated a portion of the original image to create the end of the fork so that it appeared to be cut off. Here I used the “Transform/Perspective” function to create the impression that it was lying flat as well as the “Clone” function to blend the duplicated portion into the entire image.
Cornelia Niemand 4*
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