This photo was taken last year so I may miss a few steps but as far as I can remember... two table lamps for the lighting (may have used white paper as a diffuser, but I don't remember) . A plain piece of white paper as the background. Photoshop work: Levels, and selective color for the whites, so the background is perfectly white. Selective Color for the whites may sometimes reveal jaggies in the shadows so used the blur tool to smooth them out. Lastly resized and sharpened.
The way the frame was added was by extending the canvas size by 2 pixels for the width and height, using the eyedropper tool to select the orange color from the photo. And then again extending the canvas but selecting white for the color.
If I where to re-shoot the photo today, I would've tryed to even out the lighting for the forefront of the oranges and try to keep the main shadow at the same time.
exif:
7-22mm @ 7.4mm
Subject dist: 0.290m
1/25 sec, f/2.8
Mode: Manual
Metering: Spot
Exp comp: -1
ISO: 50
AF mode: Single AF
Drive: Single frame shooting
White balance: Custom
Flash: Off
Picture Effect: Vivid
aam1234
31-Jul-2005 05:17
Now you have to tell us/me the setup for the shot, I want to be able to take similar pics. Like it a lot and the frame adds to the photo, good call.
