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Banned!

by levyj413

This took more doing than most of my setup shots, so I was thrilled at how it came out.

First, I made up this sheet of circles and printed about 6 copies:



Then my daughter and I cut them out and taped them to the background, which is a piece of black fabric I bought for maybe $15. One of the best photographic investments I've made!

She sat in the chair for me so I could get the focus right, then hit the shutter for me while I bent my head down. The result was okay, but not that fascinating:



Then I thought of all the picture-in-picture shots I've enjoyed. So I used that shot to make what you see in the entry as multiple copies spinning into infinity. I actually looked up the font of the Washington Post for the headline so it would look right, then spent some time warping it so it followed the newspaper's bend.

Finally, I printed that, plus the headline you see in the entry and glued them to the newspaper. My daughter had gone to bed by this point, so I used the timer. Lit with onboard flash. Luckily, the shadows weren't too bad. I only took a few shots, and the first one was the best.

Editing was primarily blending the too-white headline and photo into the gray newspaper. Other than that, a bit of sharpening and darkening the blacks to pure black, and I was done.

In this unedited closeup of the newspaper, you can see how the white paper really stood out:



Total time from starting to design the circles to entering: about 6 hours.

And, naturally, I ran out of time at the end and forgot to clone out the finger on the left!

Here's the final product:

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