Another chicken embryo container composite. Tricky because in order to get the egg to glow from the inside I had to remove about a nickel-sized chunk of shell from the bottom…without breaking the inner membrane! Took about 20 minutes, with tweezers. Once I had that done, I gently cracked the egg all over, then positioned it on top of a funnel with an LED under it, and focus-stacked it. Then focus stacked the cable. Then focus-stacked the clamp at the end of the cable. Then focus-stacked the shell without the glowing LED. Then just composited and tweaked it. Easy peasy.
Oh, and the whole jumper cable thing? I wanted the whole thing to look sort of electrified, so the cable just made sense. It would be silly if the egg were just sitting in a flower pot….hey, hold on….
Here’s the bigger Flickr version.
Meta: Pentax K-3, 100mm f/2.8 macro lens at f/9, ISO 100, various shutter speeds with some strobe and some natural light, plus the usual catastrophe of reflectors and stuff, about a 10-shot composite, plus a couple of dozen layers, blend modes, masks, and filters in post
