Broken Loveby
GautiComment: 2nd try
First of all: thank you all for your comments and votes. Getting a pat on the back from Dan for creativity/originality means alot to me. Thanks Dan
This is (obviously) a spoof on
Konador's red ribbon in the
Shadows II challenge.
Here is his original version, called (fittingly enouch)
Love:
and his excellent and very funny tutorial about how it was made:
How'd They Do That? :: Love
As I said in the
Photographers comments I did not break the filter for this. I actually think filters are probably quite hard to break, esp better ones like B+W, but I'm not gonna experiment to find out, thank you very much :) The filter broke by accident and I almost posted a picture of it in the
Broken Challenge outtakes thread, as this happend just a day to late for entering the challenge itself. Then I got the idea that let to this image.
The filter was, and still is, light blue (B+W 080 1.5x). And since it's broken, the love must also be broken, right? So it's got 'em blues. That was also one of the reasons why I placed the dictionary upside down, the love has gone wrong.
The book is the horribly big
Websters Unabrigded Dictionary of the English Language. Fortunately
L is close to the center of the book so the fold was deep enough for a nice shadow. Only problem was that most of the defintions of
Love were in middle column (of 3) and therefor far from the crucial fold. So I just folded the page so first column disappeard and the 2nd column was by the centre. But then there was a nasty line which caused even nastier shadows. So I taped the sucker down :) I actually also taped the edges of page so it would be nice and taut. By balancing the book I could make the filter stand up on it own (without the use of glue or Blu-Tack or anything).
To make the page look better I first shot it without filter and used that as Custum WB. Quite a neat trick. Just remember to reset your camera when you're done :)
Here is the original, unedited photo:
Most of the editing work involved blurring the line of the clear tape I used to hold the page in the right position.
I've had a couple of PM's about why I used ND filters. There are several reasons, none of them very good:
#1. I had 'em. I had just recieved an order from
B&H photo including 2 ND filters (and a extension tupe set, haven't had chance to use that much yet), and I was just dying to use these ND filters.
#2. For some strange reason I had this idea that DOF was in someway related to the length of the exposure. Now I know better. See also this tread about
Aperture vs shutter speed and DOF
#3. Since I had a bit more time to play around in I held a small mirror in front of the filter and reflected some of the light back. By moving the mirror I could highlight some of the cracks in the filter without any noticable shadows on the other side.
#4. Just for the hell of it.
This photo was a lot of fun to take and to have it score well in a difficult challenge (score-wise) was even better.
Message edited by author 2004-12-29 18:55:18. 
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