Real corn spray painted chrome. I glued circuit board prints to the inside of several leaves, replaced the corn silk with copper speaker wire and held it all together with a light bulb base in my right hand. Ideally, I wanted to have corn stalks in the background with an empty socket, but I went the lazy route with de-focused grass instead.
Shot in the last few minutes of sunset with a monolight and gold umbrella behind me to the right. I forgot that I had an ND filter AND a polarizer on my lens and couldn't figure out why the shutter speed was so slow. Duh. :-/
Processing: Convert from RAW, Luko sharpening routine, boost saturation with Channel Mixer, shift circuit board and husk colors to more appropriate greens, Noise Ninja & light Gaussian Blur on background, assorted Dodge & Burn, spot saturation/desaturation, colorize paper edge at the bottom of the husk, clone stray copper wire at top left and USM.
Yay! Thanks for the votes and comments! Lots of people commented on how much time/effort I must have spent on the prop, but it wasn't that difficult. I painted the corn, took shots of an old computer motherboard and used spray adhesive to glue prints of them to the leaves. From there, it was just a matter of holding the stuff together in my hand. One of my quicker setups, really.
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i can't believe that there are people giving pictures like this 1s, 2s and 3s. while it's maybe not the most technically impressive piece of work ever, it's certainly sound in that department, and it's more creative than the average pic.
i swear, i just don't get voters. unless it's somebody who entered this challenge and then voted everybody else a 1 in hopes of springboarding themselves up the charts, i'm just flummoxed.
You are just unstoppable. But I know how much hard work you put into your entries....amazing. I particularly love this one because I can relate to your message of engineering corn for fuels. The wires are an especially nice touch.
You are a master copy writer! Your titles are so bonded to the wonderful images you produce. I say, let's put up an advertising business and let me cash in on your talent. lol Gave the kids a break. Shannon your art is dispensed like a machine gun. Rapid fire/Rapid Art. Congratulations on your Red on yet another smart concept.
Shannon, congrats on a very creative and beautifully done entry. I'd use Dr. Achoo's words to one of my teammates and say, "here's hoping you peaked a weak early" but I see you on the front page nearly every week, so we have no hope of that :-)
I had a feeling it was yours Mr. Calvert. Very creative, my top pick for blue. (I just loved the lightbulb socket at the bottom!). Great job and thanks for the effort and creativity you always display.
Great idea and well done, as always. On my monitor, the background is a bit dark. Your original idea of the cornfield with empty bulbs background would surely have turned this into a blue ribbon!
Fantastic idea. I bet it took quite a bit of work to make that! Lots of points for you for a great idea, execution, and final product (both the corn and the photo).
Wow, how long did it take you to set that up? Even the insides of the leaves have printing/circuits on them, I think that is the icing on the cake for this image
Biotechnology... fresh from the lab!
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