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Challenge: Rejected Movie Poster (Expert Editing*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
Location: River Heights, UT USA
Date: May 2, 2010
Aperture: f 22
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1 second
Galleries: Advertisement, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: May 2, 2010

I thought I'd try to reproduce this poster, which has always been a memorable one for me since the film scared the peanuts out of my M&Ms when I was younger.

I made the ice cream by making salt dough, then scooped it out with an ice cream scooper and baked it all night on low heat to harden it up. I actually made about twelve of them, but selected this one since it had natural cracks in nearly the right places. I carved out a place for a tiny flashlight, which contributes the light to the ice cream scoop.

I then stuck my ice cream onto a skewer and mounted it on a black foam core board. I added light from the side with a larger flashlight. I did this in the hallway, by the way, and there was ambient light coming mostly from the left.

I mounted the grate (a shelf from the oven--I couldn't use the white ones from the freezer, but I hope that that's what is conveyed) onto a tripod in just the right position, then started fiddling with apertures and shutter speeds until it looked right. In the real poster, there is a cargo net under the egg, but I thought it would be fitting to stick with the kitchen theme. I burned the edges of the grate to give emphasize a triangular area "pointing" to the ice cream scoop, just like the original poster "points" to the egg.

Post processing was actually quite minimal, except that I dodged the semi circle in just above the grate, then shifted the color to green. I did the same with the area just under the ice cream scoop.

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05/03/2010 09:05:08 AM
OMG that is hilarious. (Just wish it had the credits to make it look like a real movie poster) 7
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05/03/2010 07:32:51 AM
awesome movie poster
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05/03/2010 07:19:42 AM
That caption in the middle is perfect.
05/03/2010 12:19:39 AM
lol
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