Who hasn't felt this way at least once in their life? Just so glad it's done! Took about 300 shots to get it as I was shooting in manual, and really didn't want to wimp out and go to Macro mode.
had no ideas at all for this challenge til I was looking for my needlenose pliers. Found the vise grips first and realized that I also have a crystal heart pendant that I've had forever. Wanted to convey get across the heaviness and ominous nature of the the vise grips' jaws embracing such a delicate item.
Found the pendant, removed the chain, veerrrrrry carefully put it in the grips and closed the jaws. No sickening crunching noise or slivers of crystal all over the place...whew.
Though the jaws are actually closed and holding the pendant in place, I left the arms of the grips out of the shot so that way nobody would know for sure if they were open, and could thus be closed. Which WOULD mean *crunch*.
Shot in a lightbox with light coming up from 2 20w halogen lights through glass-topped table with two sheets of floating floor stuff on top, then more folded underneath to prop up vise grips. Put turquoise tissue paper down as didn't really want to go with neutrals or colours like red, green or dark blue.
Extra light provided by a 100w bulb in a huge reflector-type shade found at a local thrift shop for $2. More floating-floor stuff over top to diffuse light and a doubled-over sheet of turquoise tissue paper bulldogged over top. Unfortunately I had to hold the light and manipulate it, so very glad I have a sturdy tripod!
pp: RAW conversion, crop, brightness/contrast, clone out tiny hot spots on heart, magic lasso, saturation, exposure, deep blue filter, resize, usm, sharpen edges, save for web.
Thanks in advance to Man_Called_Horse who taught me how to rein in my oversharpening!
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This should have finished higher. Love the concept and the colours are sweet. If I were shooting this, I would use a metallic bg instead of the wrinkly tissue paper. An overall lovely composition.
love the wrench and stone. they go great together. don;t care for the blue tissue paper background. would be better with a far off blurred out background of a darker color ... maybe even backlit a little
The jewel really pops out of this image, but I really feel that a different background would have improved the image, also the pliers have a bit of an odd tone to them.
Took me a second to realize what I was looking at - I think a plainer background would be better and possibly if the whole right side of the frame was filled with the pliers (instead of having the small gap at the top).
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