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Challenge: April Fool (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Date: Apr 12, 2014
Date Uploaded: Apr 12, 2014
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[Apr. 19th, 2014 07:52:17 PM]
When I saw the challenge topic, I immediately remembered that one, for which was also needed a rubber ducky and some other peculiar items. Since my entry used the ducky as a central component back then, I decided to make the potato the hero this time.
From there, it was quite obvious to create a little being riding the ducky, seeking for adventure. But what kind of goals could a potato-man be after? This is how that potato masher came to mind. I decided to construct some kind of mountain, which would symbolize the knight's aim. During the afternoon, I took my wheelbarrow to the river next to my house, and transported some rocks back into my home-studio. I spent the evening arranging them, and added some old roots among them, to make the edifice look like it was an old construction.
The day after, I tried to create the potato-knight himself, but quickly ran into a proportion problem. The ducky I had was way too small, compared to the toothbrush, the watch, or even the coffee cup! In expert editing this would have been trivial to fix, but in advanced I had no choice but go to the toy store, where I finally found a bigger version that was much more suitable for my project.
Shooting the scene went smoothly: a main softbox from the upper left (to support the direction of the knight's look), a strobe from behind the rocks for some backlighting, a cobra pointing to the masher for drama, and a last softbox from behind/right at mid power, just for rim light. Some smoke for good measure, and that was it. On the computer, I spent a few hours carefully masking each portion of the photo, in order to be able to adjust colors independently (turned the background to green, the ducky to white, the toothbrush to red, etc.), which permitted to enforce the mysterious atmosphere I wanted for that shot.
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