Day 41

I started out by placing an egg in this blue fabric, then remembered I bought a cool looking pear yesterday. The pear reminded me of a woman's body. After many attempts to light this with the umbrella I realized what I really wanted was a lot of shadows so the shape of the pear and the wrinkles in the fabric would show up better. I put a napkin over the flash and pointed it low and camera left to accentuate the curves. I added a light texture to bring the pear and fabric together and here's the result.

Day 15

I wanted to work with the pears again so I stuck it on this Sergio Bustamante statue of the Umbrella Man I bought while in Mexico a few years ago. It had an umbrella where the pear is but while on vacation the kids had a party or two and the umbrella was smashed to smithereens.
The flash behind and umbrella was used off to the statue's right side and in front.
1DMarkIII, 24-105mm lens, iso 125, f/14, s2.0 sec.










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