As people were curious, I thought I would share the secret to the exploding fruit shots.
Firstly, as much as I would love to claim it, it is not my idea! A mate of mine is doing a course and his tutor gave them some sample pics and he told me about it. After looking through flickr, various others have also done their own variations on the theme.
All you do is slice something up, hold it together with toothpicks, stick it in a lightbox and snap away. A quick edit with the clone tool in Photoshop later and you are left with puzzling images.
The set up:
One ghetto lightbox, some fruit and some toothpicks.
The shots, after & before:
It only took an hour or so in total and I'm pretty happy with the results.
Firstly, as much as I would love to claim it, it is not my idea! A mate of mine is doing a course and his tutor gave them some sample pics and he told me about it. After looking through flickr, various others have also done their own variations on the theme.
All you do is slice something up, hold it together with toothpicks, stick it in a lightbox and snap away. A quick edit with the clone tool in Photoshop later and you are left with puzzling images.
The set up:
One ghetto lightbox, some fruit and some toothpicks.
The shots, after & before:
It only took an hour or so in total and I'm pretty happy with the results.
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