SCREW GRAVITY

Killjoy wrote in post #9676313
Cool. But Randy was close. You used a piece of glass. How'd you get rid of the reflections? CPL?

recrisp wrote in post #9676730

That's exactly what I figured he did, used a polarizing filter to get rid of the glare, but, I mentioned glass, and evidently it's not that.

Randy

Correct! I missed your first post Randy. It's on glass and CPL to remove the shadow. I also bounced my flash off of a green surface.

This is a wild guess: The screw was photographed separately while screwed into wood. Attention was paid to minimal DOF with the head being in focus. The carpet was photographed with the same depth of field. Both images were blended with the screw on top, toned green, and the screw shadow burned in. The shadow has a slight burnt orange quality when I believe a deeper darker green would be normally rendered. There may be some natural color shift in a shadow due to ambient light.

Unique composition, I like it.

TheReal7 wrote in post #9676740
Correct! I missed your first post Randy. It's on glass and CPL to remove the shadow. I also bounced my flash off of a green surface.

I'm glad it was that because otherwise you would've had to be magic!
Good job on that too, I would've not thought to take that shot.

Randy

Cyclop wrote in post #9679231
Unique composition, I like it.

Thank you!

recrisp wrote in post #9679296
I'm glad it was that because otherwise you would've had to be magic!
Good job on that too, I would've not thought to take that shot.

Randy

A little ghost helped me out with the levitation

Surely it would have been fairly easy to suspend it with fishing line and the clone it out?

Roy Mathers wrote in post #9686466
Surely it would have been fairly easy to suspend it with fishing line and the clone it out?

This would have been a lot more work. No place to hang the line from plus the hassle of cloning it out. I am not a big clone'r of things out Not only that when shooting macro you have such a small DOF to try and focus on a hanging screw that would most likely be moving from the wind would be challenging.

cool

is it in water?

Nice idea.

Soooo how many shots did it take before you got this one?

aebrown wrote in post #9731425
Soooo how many shots did it take before you got this one?

With the screw and green lighting, 2 shots. This was the better composition of the 2.