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Guest
12-Dec-2003 18:04
Thanks, ISO. I felt this picture needed something to bind the two halves together and your suggestion sparked a parallel thought. I've added a thin red boarder and updated the image. I like it better.
Congrats on your first entry here Pops! And an intriguing one too. Looks like the Don Ellis glass technique for the pepper. I really like the odd red one. I think the frame is the biggest reason that it looks like a composite. If a neutral frame of one colour only had been used, it may have brought the two halves together as one. Then again, it is supposed to be opposites isn't it?
Olaf.dk
12-Dec-2003 06:59
Yeah, that's why I wrote "but maybe not!". The fuzzy line between the black and the white backgrounds made me think that this probably wasn't a composite! --Olaf
Guest
12-Dec-2003 01:00
This is not a composite of two images. The salt and pepper were on a sheet of glass on a sheet of white paper and a sheet of black paper. Yea, they look a bit out of scale as you've mentioned but they really aren't.
Olaf.dk
11-Dec-2003 21:56
I thought of salt and pepper too! From there my mind went to scottie-dogs which when they have both white and black hairs are called salt and pepper. If I had the dogs (and my camera) I thought I could have shot a Black Scottish Terrier on a white background and a West Highland White Terrier on a black background, putting it together in much the same fashion as you have here. Sorry for rambling, but made me think of when I was a boy and didn't know a lot of English: thought The Beatles sang "Salt and Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band" LOL! I like your idea! One thing I thought about (*): the scale and perspective of the grains of salt and the peppercorns should be the same, seems like the pepper is too big and at a lower angle - but maybe not! --Olaf
