plastic pigs hanging vertically by their tails with black cotton
black card on floor for background
photo of the earth raised up of the ground and at angle to keep it a right angles to the camera
pigs lit with flashlight with red cellophane filter
from right with white reflector card on left to bounce color back
16 sec exposure total
second flashlight to illuminate world photo for 6 secs then used to light each pig separately to reduce red color to make it closer to pink for about 8 secs total
editing using GIMP
burn background to make it blacker
use curves brighten world
use curves to mack the pigs pinker
clone out black cotton
USM to boost contrast
flatten
resize
USM
border
save for web
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Flying pigs... Very "Pink Floydesque". Very imaginative and well executed. The pigs are very grainy and noisy though. A software like Neat Image would highly improve this picture and it's worth it, it's really a great shot.
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