Directions for Curves in Color/Colour

(Easier to read directions above when viewed large, but repeated more or less below for convenience).
Thanks to those of you who were interested in the original shot I posted yesterday - http://365project.org/taffy/365/2014-02-24. I hadn’t expected such interest, actually, so was really pleased! For those who wondered what it is or wanted to do something like this, here is what you need:
1. iPad with wallpaper of your choice
2. spoon
3. dark room
4. (ideally, but I did it handheld, which was awkward) tripod and remote shutter release
Then, all you do is take photos of the wallpaper reflected in the spoon, then crop to make it interesting and remove link to visual image of the spoon and ta-da, you have your abstract, as detailed above.

[Taffy]

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[Katie]

It's a spoonflection! Yay!

[Laurie]

Ooo thanks for the instructions! I will definitely try this at some point!

[Taffy]

@traceyhn It looks like this didn't tag you above, because I didn't leave a space...sorry if it's a duplicate!

[Lisa]

WOW!

[Ross Walker]

A+. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[Annie D]

@taffy thanks Taffy - very cool and hope to give it a go :)

[Deborah DeJong]

Thanks for sharing the tutorial! Nice job!

[Sheralee S]

That's amazing! Thanks for sharing! So the whole finished image is the reflection in the spoon and none of the image from the ipad is included?

[Taffy]

@bella_ss The upper left curvy part is the spoon. In the lower left photo you can see the rectangular crop for the spoon and the wallpaper.

[Kim]

Thanks for generously sharing your instructions!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Very creative!!

[Clare]

Thank you so much for taking the time to share how you did this! Very creative. The final image is great!

[Marg Budd]

You are amazing. Very creative and brilliant technically as well. Wow!

[Pam Knowler]

Thanks for that Taffy! I have done a spoon reflection shot but this takes it one step further. Very clever and creative! Great tutorial. Cheers for sharing.

[Kerri]

Great collage

[Karen Smale]

Very clever - thanks for sharing how to do it!

[Sheralee S]

@taffy Ahh, thank you, I was wondering if that was how it was. Sorry, had to get my head around it :)

[Carolyn]

Thank you Taffy, this will be fun to try. Love learning new things from all you great photographers!

[Hope D Jennings]

Wow taffy!! Thank you!!

[*lynn]

awesome work! thanks for sharing

[Angie]

That is awesome and so really creative! Thanks so much for sharing it- I love how you took step by step pics. Well done and thank you!

[Richard Hickey]

Wonderful picture and thank you for the steps.

[Sue Wilde]

Brilliant...thank you

[Jan Harris]

Yes. Thanks for taking the time to let us know how its done. Clever.

[Suse♡]

Cool to find out how this was done, thank you for the info Taffy!

[Paul "Snapchap" Everest]

Totally fab! I have used my monitor and Android pad as backgrounds many times but not to get such amazing reflections.

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

Thank you, Taffy, that's great! My husband's the tablet user in our house, so I never think about it. That's going to have to change, I think. :-D

[Loopy-Lou]

That's fab, thank you for taking the time to explain.

[Timothy]

cool

[virtualbrownie]

Amazing how much work went in to this shot - your attention to detail is astounding

[Penny Price]

Superb. Thanks for sharing, I'm going to give this a go sometime.

[Dione Giorgio]

Wonderful abstract collage and colours. Thanks for the info - not very difficult to follow.

[Melissa Bailey]

Fab explanation, thanks for taking the time!...Keep meaning to utilise spoons....I should try a reflections week!

[SarahJ]

That's so cool, thank you for the explanation!

[Islandgirl]

Thank you for sharing..........Very Creative!..........that's what I love about this site everyone is willing to help each other. :)

[Charlotte]

Fantastic! Great idea, would never have worked that out, so thanks for sharing!

[elkehochban]

Thanks, Taffy! You're so generous with your how to's! I think I'm too technologically backward to figure it out, so I'll just gaze at your shot with jaw dropping admiration!

[Andy Mcculloch]

Spoon + ipad = awesome image. Would never haver known it was done like that.

[Leon Buijs]

thanks for sharing this short tutorial. Very creative

[Rachel]

thank you so much for sharing the technique, very creative. woukd have never thought of it, brilliant!

[Muse]

Thank you for sharing! I don't think I will try, but it's very interesting!

[Sarah Munnings]

So very cleverly creative to think this up :)

[Alice Burghart]

good information. Thanks for sharing your process and congrats on TT for the result of this endeavor.

[Lisa Stein]

How nice of you to share your process. Love the collage and the step by step instructions. You are a constant inspiration to me. I really admire your creativity, the variety of your shots, and your great eye!

[Lindsay]

Thank you for sharing how you did this. I don't know if I'll every get the courage to try it but it's kind of you to show us!

[Shanne]

cool instructions here

[Rosie Kerr]

This is how I got my little "icon" for 365, only I couldn't remember where I had found the instructions. So happy to have located it! :) A belated fav for this, with thanks.

[Taffy]

@rosiekerr oh great! I'd noticed tour icon and thought it had the feel of one of my shots. But I thought it was coincidence.