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Good evening my friend

 

Since you've asked for an explanation of this shot, I hope someone will translate this for you.   I really appreciate your kind words, thank you.

 

This is actually one of the simplest shots I've ever done.   These are simply 3 plastic 8.5 x 11 inch magnifiers where I've placed one vertically, one horizontally, and one balanced on its tip at an angle, and where they overlap, they create these geometrical shapes.

I leaned these three magnifiers up again a glass jar which is supporting them.

 

A majority of the still lifes that I've uploaded to this forum including this shot has been done with these still lifes placed on a sheet of brushed aluminum.   I use brushed aluminum because it creates reflections of the subject matter and that sometimes creates an interesting 'interplay' between the relfection and the real object. 

 

I place the brushed aluminum on a stool and then the stool and brushed aluminum up against a white wall, and bounced my illumination off the wall to illuminate the subject matter on the brushed aluminum from behind.    Lighting glass, transparent, and/or translucent  objects like these from behind gives the illumination a chance to bounce around in the glass of the object in all kinds of interesting and strange ways.   You can always open a window and let daylight illumination in to light your subject matter in place of studio lighting, whatever works.

 

Aluminum foil where you use the shiny or dull side spread out on cardboard, would also work if you cannot find some brushed aluminum.   These are some of the ways you can experiment in shooting subject matter like this.   I always find it stressfull when I try a new technique, just like anyone else, I'm at first hesitant to try someting new for fear of failing and embarrassing myself, but I always try to get over that fear and take risks.   Risk taking is the key, I always try new ideas and accept that when I try something new, I may not always get it right the first time I attempt it.   

 

I think the mistake that many new photographers make is trying something that turns out badly, they become embarrassed about it and then give up, instead of saying I'll keep doing this until I get it right.  

 

Whenever you ask about a shot just like you're asking now, it means you're inspired or interested in a shot, and you have the spirit to start trying something new, and that is how all of us inspire each other, to take risks to come of w/interesting and new.

 

Many of the shots that I've uploaded here, and on my personal website, are not first attempts, but ideas that I was able to refine after shooting many versions until I could get it right.   Many times you'll have a geat idea that you'll end up executing poorly, so if it's truly a great idea, keep at the execution of that idea until you get it right, don't quit.

 

I didn't write this to presume that I'm trying to teach anyone anything, but as a primer on what I'm thinking when I shoot.

 

Good luck to you and take care.