It was a foggy, snowy day today and we are on spring break. So, I spent an absurd amount of time to create this image at a recommendation from Ross @rvwalker
1. I sliced the decaying onion til I had as thin a slice as I could get.
2. I put it on a glass table and beneath the table, built up the surface (using an upside-down pot and some cutting boards)
3. I placed a bright light facing up to backlight the onion slice.
4. I put my camera on my tripod with the macro as my lens.
5. Forgot how to turn the bar so that I could line up the camera facing downward, so did a google search. Turned out there was a button to press and that was it (great tripod, btw, the Manfrotto 190C3x)
6. Moved the onion slice around to get into position and suddenly saw a face with two wonky eyes and a mouth wide open.
7. Took bracketed shots because I couldn't tell about the best exposure
8. Cleaned up the kitchen after taken a few more photos of P3 (penguin) surveying the carnage
9. Looked at photos and learned a huge lesson.
10. DO NOT CLEAN UP before viewing photos large. I cut off the edges of its eyes.
ARGH! Everything was in the trash by then. so this is what it is.
"The Onion" -- a gift that keeps on giving. More onion to come this week.
Fascinating... almost like a slice of onion under a microscope. Three eyes are looking back at me. So cool. Please tell @rvwalker "hi" for me, if you would. I followed him and enjoyed his work.
Wonderful Taffy! Great backlit slice! I did a similar thing early in my project with a slice of a leek. This is much more interesting with the variety of colour inside the onion! Love the sad face you have found! Great commentary too! You made me smile - just what I needed this morning! Fav!
Ah the lessons we learn. I've learned that one two. So then I start playing and sometimes it is days before I put everything away. Of course I wasn't playing with a smelly onion.
Very cool! I liked the bit of mystery as I tried to figure out what it was before reading your description. I thought cells at first, and then some kind of marbled rock. Nice shot!
Such a funky face.....one of the eyes is open, the other one half closed....the mouth lopsided.....the nose drawn by Picasso.....such a cool shot!! No worries.....there will be another onion sprouting soon! ;-))
Perhaps there were tears in your eyes from cutting up the onion. I leave an arranged scene sometimes long after I know I have the picture, mostly because I get busy looking at other's pictures on 365 and forget to go clean up the mess.
LOL that would be way too much work for me! I'd just slice it thin, put it on a white plate on the floor in the sunlight, stand over it and shoot! I am LAZY when it comes to setting up shots! For me, it doesn't matter whether I see the face of not- I like the geometric pattern. Well done!
Awesome, have to fav and had to smile at your story....point 10 , Just love all your onion shots such fabulous captures. And amazing how it can be changed by processing
March 29th, 2015
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