I used canned air turned upside down to freeze the sun glasses. I strapped a bottle of dry ice with hot water in it to my side and ran a hose up my sleeve to guide the smoke out to my hand.
I also froze an apple with some nice icicles, but I couldn't figure out how to incorporate it well.
The background was some rubbery, stretchy stuff I got from a craft/hardware store, Tokyu Hands. I will miss this store when I go back to the U.S. It has so much great stuff in it. I posted the background on my ceiling to get the nice even lines reflecting the light. My camera was on a tripod pointing up, and I stood on my sofa bending over the camera.
Between my glasses melting, the hot water getting to cool, the hose sliding out of the bottle, and simply not knowing how well my pose fit in the frame this was a pretty painful shot, but I'm happy with the outcome.
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very good, nice concept, executed fairly well. The only thing that i can say is dropping the chin just a tad would have had more of an impact and the glasses would have been more prominent. Very nicely done on the sharpness and colours. 8
Above the average and thats for sure, I like the frost on the glasses, the pose, and the background light, the smoke effect makes it even better, very well done,
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