A Woody Wonder

[Pete Askew]

Another from the tropical seedpod collection.

Cambo Legend, Schneider Super Symmar 120mm f1:5.6 MC, PhaseOne P45 back. Side-lit with a Bowens focussing spot flash driven from a Bowens Quadmatic Asymmetric generator (1 kJ s). 1/30s at f1:11 with 10º left swing, 10º +ve tilt and a small amount of rise on the front standard (to fine-tune the framing). PP in CaptureOne Pro 7, PS and Nik ColorFx 4 and Cropped in LR.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Wow, isn't that good?! Great dof, comp, tones, texture, everything. Nice one, Pete.

 

[Brian Moore]

It looks like some 4th Century nesting bowls pulled from a bog. Lovely shot.

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks Rob but I'm not sure I'm there yet with this pod (and there are some JPEG artefacts top left). I think I'll try a softer light source.

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Thanks Brian.

 

[Paul Lange]

Nice quality of tones there. Have you some shots showing more of the pod so it's not so abstract? I'm interested to see what it looks like.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Top dollar!! Title of the thread concerned me a bit! Wondering were you was going with that!

 

[Andrew Cotterill]

That's incredible. It looks like something carved from wood. How big is what we are seeing there?

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks Andrew, the total frame represents an area of about 4cm across. I took a shot of the setup to show Paul what the seedpod actually looked like.