As usual, I had a different picture in my mind but that one didn't work. However, I'm really pleased how this one came out, so that's ok :) Basically, I took 3 cross-shaped icecubes, balanced them on a lightbox and held black card-board behind the lightbox. Aligned the camera so that the lightbox itself is not visible. Then underexposed. Since I had set the white-balance with two lightsources initially and I turned one of them off half-way through taking the photos it's not quite right and the icecubes are slightly blue. That saved me the trouble of colorizing them in PaintShopPro :)
Very little post-processing done to the final image. A very slight saturation, some cloning out of reflections at the ends of the cubes where they touched the lightbox. Crop, resize, USM, add border and signature. |
