Oh I'm havin' fun now and I know what you're thinking... Yes, I shot this TODAY. Yes I shot it here in Friday Harbor... (well OK, the image in the background I shot last January in Hawaii), but the foreground was shot today. After dark. In my living room. Here's the setup I used. One bare strobe on 1/4 power and 80mm zoom about 24" above the plateful of sand and shells. Shot up close and personal with macro lens. Sand and seashells imported from San Felipe, Mexico, rocks from Sucia Island and the Chiton - well I don't know where we got that. Combine all ingredients, layer sand over surfer with Photoshop and bake at 85 tropical degrees. And I have to give credit to my daughter Courtney for coming up with the idea to shoot some rocks from our beach collection jar. 1/6th sec. f/29 iso 200 Lens at 56mm focal length.
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ReplyDeleteThat's not South Beach?
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That is just too cool. I was totaly fooled by it. Nicely imagined and well executed. The only nit is that the horizon has a slight tilt. 'Coarse, maybe that's how it is where the map says: 'there be dragons here'...
ReplyDeleteMy wife came in and looked over my shoulder as I opened this up....she thought you were in Hawaii before she started reading the info....You did a nice job of fooling her, and me. I wonder wha it would look like with only half the amount of shells in teh picture, or/and the surfer moved slightly to one side or the other, ...maybe move him left?
ReplyDeleteYeah I was just messin around. I agree too many shells. The surfer was right smack in the middle of the original photo. I spose I could have moved him to one side and cloned some ocean... As for the non-level horizon - you know how when you look straight out to sea, it's kinda flat, but as you look left and right, you can kinda see the curve of the earth? Well this is looking toward the right... ;)
ReplyDeleteLOL, yeah this is what south beach looks like with a good Winter gale!
ReplyDeleteI needed this! What a great break from all the dark, wet fog. I have to admit that my first thought was along the lines of "liar, liar, pants on fire" but the description brought me home. Great mini-mental vacation.
ReplyDeleteHi Rainsong, yeah I thought I better post a photo of the plate of sand in my living room or no one would believe me! LOL. (and I was surprised too at how sunny it really looked!)
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