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11/01/2004 12:55:33 AM · #1
Hello, welcome to my "How I did it" post for my Implied Lines shot, "Incubation".

This shot took.. quite a number of hours to set up. The first thing I did was grab a sheet of 22x28" white posterboard, and plotted out a 21x22 point grid on it, shown here:



Which took me about 2 hours to do. Then, I placed the sheet on the ground, and started hot-gluing Scotch Mints onto each point, as shown here:



This took about.. oh.. 5 hours or so all told. That's 462 scotch mints that I had to glue on there!!! Next, I took a practice shot:



Which convinced me that I was going down the right path, so I finished gluing everything on. (For some reason, I forgot to take a picture of the finished thing, but you can probably picture it.). Anyway, once it was done, I went to town trying to find a shot I really liked, which resulted in these outtakes:







The blue effect is *straight* from camera, and I got it by doing a custom white balance, and then using the flash. I don't know if any of the outtakes are stronger than what I submitted, but that's all water under the bridge.

The shadows and coloring on the ribbon winning entry were a complete accident. They were caused by the lamp I was using to see by while gluing the mints, and the ambient lighting from my tract lighting in my living room. I just did a little hue/saturation and color balancing work on it to bring out the blues, and voila.

So there you have it. Sweat, glue and a whole lot of muscle aching while scrunched on the ground gluing mints to a sheet of paper, and it results in a yellow ribbon. (and 0.002 away from a red.. woah). Hope you enjoyed reading :)
11/01/2004 12:57:18 AM · #2
Very cool!
11/01/2004 12:57:29 AM · #3
Wow, and thanks for the run down there :)

It certainly shows that putting a hell of a lot of effort into a photo can pay off :)
11/01/2004 01:04:13 AM · #4
Thanks for the description. You've certainly earned your moniker with this one. Congrats again.
11/01/2004 01:16:20 AM · #5
I thought they were eggs..............

But I'm just a dumbass.....
11/01/2004 01:17:32 AM · #6
Originally posted by Spazmo99:

I thought they were eggs..............

But I'm just a dumbass.....


LOL.. nahh.. a bunch of people thought they were eggs :)

The title didn't help either ;)
11/01/2004 01:22:11 AM · #7
Originally posted by Artyste:

a bunch of people thought they were eggs :)


I did! Even after reading half of this post and wondering how you used mints to hold the eggs in that upright position. I didn't get it until seeing the practice shot and thinking, "Wait a second! He didn't mention how he attached the eggs!"
11/01/2004 01:23:32 AM · #8
Originally posted by alsatia:

Originally posted by Artyste:

a bunch of people thought they were eggs :)


I did! Even after reading half of this post and wondering how you used mints to hold the eggs in that upright position. I didn't get it until seeing the practice shot and thinking, "Wait a second! He didn't mention how he attached the eggs!"


hehehehe. :)
11/01/2004 02:09:33 AM · #9
you spent all that time glueing the mints and your final shot was only a fraction of them.... :)
11/01/2004 02:11:31 AM · #10
Originally posted by riotspyne:

you spent all that time glueing the mints and your final shot was only a fraction of them.... :)


LOL.. yah

What can ya do eh?
11/01/2004 02:21:33 AM · #11
Originally posted by alsatia:

Originally posted by Artyste:

a bunch of people thought they were eggs :)


I did! Even after reading half of this post and wondering how you used mints to hold the eggs in that upright position. I didn't get it until seeing the practice shot and thinking, "Wait a second! He didn't mention how he attached the eggs!"


lol... Your not Robinson Crusoe with those thoughts.
11/01/2004 04:48:57 AM · #12
This was awesome!!! Excellent work indeed.
11/01/2004 05:06:38 AM · #13
Originally posted by alsatia:

Originally posted by Artyste:

a bunch of people thought they were eggs :)


I did! Even after reading half of this post and wondering how you used mints to hold the eggs in that upright position. I didn't get it until seeing the practice shot and thinking, "Wait a second! He didn't mention how he attached the eggs!"


Exactly what I was thinking :))

Message edited by author 2004-11-01 16:03:12.
11/01/2004 11:14:21 AM · #14
You got a lot of great shots out of that set-up. We should have a scotch mint challenge! Congrats, Glen, on a huge success with a lot of hard work and exceptional creativity.
11/01/2004 12:47:23 PM · #15
Originally posted by Artyste:

Hello, welcome to my "How I did it" post for my Implied Lines shot, "Incubation".


Thanks for sharing!!!! Congrats!
11/01/2004 12:55:30 PM · #16
Yup, 6 hours of your life for a yellow Gif - that's time well spent! :D

Message edited by author 2004-11-01 12:56:09.
11/01/2004 03:19:28 PM · #17
Thanks for the explanation on a very cool pic. You had me fooled too. I thought they were eggs as well.
11/01/2004 03:20:50 PM · #18
Originally posted by Imagineer:

Yup, 6 hours of your life for a yellow Gif - that's time well spent! :D


now now.. no need to be *that* way ;)

Besides, it was 6 hours that just would have been spent in front of my computer, and now I have this really cool... uh... thing... of .. mints.. sitting there.

Message edited by author 2004-11-01 15:21:05.
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