Challenge: Unique (DPL6-Playoff1A) (Standard Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Sony Alpha 1
Lens: Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
Date: Oct 12, 2025
Aperture: 22.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Date Uploaded: Oct 12, 2025
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My teammates asked me who I buried
It was my husband
I wish he would have told me that he let the life insurance lapse BEFORE I took the photo!
I would have given him a straw.
[Oct. 19th, 2025 08:58:55 PM]
So I tried to think of something for unique -- but hit a roadblock. So I started thinking of unique businesses. What about a graveside delivery service -- from the grave?
"Hey Jeff -- I want to take a photo of a hand coming up through the dirt, holding a flower. "
He long ago stopped asking why.
He baulked a little bit when I said I was going to photograph it indoors.
I thought it was pretty stupid, too. But it just seemed easier at the time, since I needed 3-4 studio lights.
So he pulled in two saw horses, a bag of dirt, a couple of different plant ideas, a large piece of foam core, and once we realized how heavy the dirt was, a couple of 2x4s, which wasn't quite enough so some long metal things.
In the meantime, I found the 3D printed moon nightlight. (I've tried it before, and it's too dim to really work with. But I thought maybe a long exposure and the a flash??) Brilliant idea!! Try putting a strobe directly behind it!! And it worked beautifully!
Here's the 3d printed moon
I didn't have a way of hanging the moon, so I had my great-grandma's tall candlestick and it sat beautifully on top of that, which was on top of a book, on top of a TV tray -- all to get the right height! Then I put the strobe behind it.
There wasn't much room, so I had to put a black backdrop over a china cabinet to hide it, a black bag over the tv tray, and a black vflat behind everything.
Then comes the dirt!
 
We bought pansies and mums to try, but a lily from a flower arrangement someone sent worked the best.
Strobe in the front right for a bit of fill, strobe to the right side for textures, strobe behind the moon, and strobe up high to try to get a little rim lighting (which didn't really work)
And then a very kind husband that sits underneath the saw horses, with his hand up through the foam core, holding a lily.
Thanks for the comments!
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