Thursday 11 February 2010

042: Ten Paintbrushes

f/11, ISO 200, 1/180 sec. 50mm M42, 21mm extensions.
A modest collection of various paintbrushes is depicted today. Some more worn than others, they are arranged here in two interlocking, comb-like rows.
I set them up by duct-taping each row loosely to a 10-CD jewel case box and bringing them together; then making some individual up-down adjustments to fit them all fairly neatly together.
The background is the black inside divider sheet from a large box of chocolates (see post 010 - now all finished..:3) which was set behind the CD boxes and angled downwards slightly as it is a little shiny.
The flash was mounted on top of the camera as usual, but sideways due to the portrait orientation. The tinfoil top-reflector helped to fire it from the left, and a white card (the inside of the chocolate box lid!) reflected it from the right side.

I ahve to say I quite like this one.

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